If a field be well plowed and ridged, fo as 

 to prevent the water from {landing, it will 

 receive a great quantity of rain, without be- 

 ing fo much hurt as one would imagine. 



The anfwer to the fecond objection is, That 

 a fecond crop of oats impoverifhes or exhaufts 

 the foil, more than a crop of wheat after fal- 

 low ; of courfe, the field is not in that order 

 for the fucceeding crops as after a fallow ; be- 

 fides, a good crop of wheat, in general, is 

 equal in value to two crops of oats. The 

 farmers in the carfe of Cowrie, who pay 

 from thirty to fifty-five fhillings each acre 

 for rent, find it much for their intereft to 

 fummer-fallow a fixth part of their farms eve- 

 ry year, after taking only one crop of oats 

 from clover. Some of them have told me, 

 they commonly have the fixteenth return 

 from the feed fown after this fallow. 



There is another great argument for fow- 

 ing wheat in a country fubjedl to much rain, 

 that it is the firft grain commonly cut down, 

 when early fown, and requires to {land but a 

 few days in the field after being cut down, 

 before it is carried to the barn-yard. Nay, I 

 have known wheat, when very ripe, cut 



down 



