( '34 ) 



" The edges of the flags being intimately 



66 united by the rolling and trampling, and 



<c the remaining fiiTures being filled up by 



* the harrow, the grafles are thereby thought 



" to be kept under ; and fhould feed-weeds 



< appear in the fpring, the hoe has 



" free admiflion between double row and 



1 double row to extirpate them ; an opera- 



" tion, however, which I underftand feldom 



" takes place. 



The feed being wholly buried in the bo- 

 dy of the flag, there is no " under- corn;" 

 the plants are uniformly vigorous, the 

 ' draw, colleftively, is confequently ftouter, 

 and the grain more even, than that which 

 ' is ufually produced from fowing the feed 

 " broad-caft over the rough flag. For, in 

 " this cafe, part of the feed falls through be- 

 " tween the flags, and being there too deep- 

 " ly buried by the harrows, the young plants 

 " are longer in reaching the furface than are 

 " thofe from the feed, which happens to fall 

 : in a more favourable fituation ; and which 

 <c thereby gain an afcendency they never 

 * c lofe. Hence a number of-underling plants, 

 " and hence the fmall fhrivelled grains, which 



fl render 



cc 



ct 

 I 



(t 



(C 



