FARMER'S ASSISTANT. 26.3 



After the plants of wheat have got to a proper size in the 

 l, the horse-hoe, or plough, is run close to the plants, on 

 each side of the double rows, and the lurrows are turned 

 from them; and thus, Mr, Tull says, the growing grain 

 should be left during Winter; it being, by this process, laid 

 so dry, that it will be in no danger of being thrown out of 

 ground by the Winter-frost. 



Early in the Spring, the earth is to be turned lo the 

 rows; then in May, from them; and in June to them again. 

 Some weeds, which will rise between the double rows and 

 round the stalks, must be taken out by hand. 



Thjis culture, Mr. Tull says, is equally well applied to 

 barley and some other kinds of grain. For barley, it has 

 been found to answer very well here; but for wheat, in 

 particular, it will not answer. It makes this grain grow so 

 rank and thrifty, and continue so much beyond the usual 

 time in the green state, that it generally becomes blasted or 

 mildewed Probably the same fate would, in some measure, 

 attend this kind of culture, with regard to rye, if a culture 

 so expensive could, in this Country, be afforded to that 

 grain 



Mr Tulfs leading principle is, that frequent ploughings 

 have the same effect on lands as manuring ; and this, in 

 general, is believed to be correct, though not equally so in 

 all soils; that by this constant ploughing, or horse-hoeing, 

 the lands will be sufficiently and constantly manured ; that 

 soils not very rich can, in this way, be made to produce 

 very large crops ; and, what is sometimes important, they 

 can thus be made to produce the same crops every year; 

 as the ground is ploughed up again, as soon as the grown 

 crop has been harvested. 



Although the husbandry of Mr. Tull will probably never 

 come into general use in Greatbritain, where, from the 

 coolness of the Summers it will always answer best ; yet, 

 the drill-plough, and the method recommended by him, cf 

 ploughing among plants, are each founded in an accurate 

 knowledge of good husbandry ; and the latter will ever be 

 found best in the cultivation of many plants; such as beans, 

 Indian corn, carrots, cabbages, potatoes, Sec. ; and, no doubt, 

 barley, and probably some other kinds ol grain, may in this 

 manner be successfully cultivated. 



Mr. Deane says he has cultivated barley in this way, and 

 never had less than forty bushels to the acre. 



NURSERY. It would seem to be the better plan, to 

 make a nursery on such ground as is but illy suited to the 

 growth of the trees to be raised ; for, by afterwards placing 

 them in a soil that is natural to them, they will grow more 



