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even ameliorating. They all shade the 

 ground during the hottest time of the year. 

 All corns impoverish ; and withal, the small 

 kinds let in weeds ; which, with rest, bind 

 and foul the soil. But they check the 

 washing away of soil ; which maize culture 

 greatly promotes, by repeated ploughings 

 or scratchings given whilst the maize is 

 growing. 



N I. has two fields stirred and cleaned, 

 namely, the fallow (a naked one), and the 

 pea or bean field, if in rows ; the growing 

 crop of the last shelters the soil from extreme 

 exhalation. This is the only ameliorating 

 crop against the two exhausting crops, wheat 

 and barley. N II. has one horse-hoed or 

 ploughed field, in a fallow crop of peas or 

 beans ; and three fields of ameliorating 

 productions, which are peas, clover, clover, 

 against two exhausters, wheat and barley. 

 It is to be observed, that the field-bean in 

 England, though small, is of the nature of 

 the garden or Windsor bean. It grows 

 upright, and, giving but a partial shade, is 



