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o-rew very ftrong before winter, the cold of which they bore very 

 well : and the plowing I gave them on the fifteenth of Odtober, by 

 cutting a very deep furrow within about three inches of the rows, 

 fecured them from the damage which corn fre(juqntly,iuiFers from 

 rain or the melting of the fnow. •,!-;•, 



" In the fpring, they made flrong flioots, grew apace, and branched 

 very abundantly. I alTilled them, as I am going to relate, at proper 

 fealbns, both with refped: to the condition of the plants and earth, 

 and to the temperature of the weather. 



" On the fifteenth of March 1753, I gave them the firil plowing 

 after winter. 



" On the twenty-fixth, the beds were weeded. 



" On the eleventh of April, I ftirred them with the cultivator. 



" On the twenty-fixth, the thirties were plucked up, 



*' On the fourteenth of May, the ftirring was repeated with the 

 plough. 



«♦ On the fifteenth, the ears began to appear. 



'* On the twenty-ninth, the fourth ftirring was given with the 

 cultivator with mould boards. 



" On the thirtieth, the wheat was in full bloom. 



" On the third of June the wheat fuftained a violent ftorm of hail 



and rain. _ c .^r.j^d 'nhU' r: 



" On the thirteenth, the fifth ftirring was given with the new 

 plough with two Ihares, or double cultivator. 



*' I beg leave to obferve, that there needs no further proof that 

 wheat, cultivated according to the new huibandry, will be little apt 

 to be lodged, than the eafe with which I performed the fifth cul- 

 ture, after the accidents which happened on the third of June, when 

 the wheat had attained its greateft neight. So far was it from being 

 laid thereby, that the whole extent of the plough found free ad- 

 mittance into the alleys, and this laft culture could be given with- 

 out damaging the ftalks. 



*^ Tho' the whole of our plowing and hoeing may be performed 

 extremely well with my plough and the inftrument which I call 

 the cultivator, yet I have thought of making this taHc ftill more ea- 

 fy. Two new inftruments, (not indeed abfolutely necefl^iry,) will 

 anfwer this end.. I propofe them only as ver}' ufeful, and proper to 

 be employed only the fecond or third year, when the earth has ac- 

 quired part of that minute divifion, of which it is fufceptible. 



" The cultivator with mould-boards, and the plough with two 



Y 2 ihares. 



