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fteem'd the beft for Wheat, this Corn always 

 requiring a fubftantial Earth : The Seafon. 

 for fowing of Wheat is about Michaelmas^ a 

 Month before or a Month after. If you com- 

 mence your Sowing before Michaelmas^ two 

 Bufliels to an Acre will be a fufficient Qiian- 

 tity well manag'd 5 but if you do not begin 

 this Work *till after Michaelmas^ it will be 

 neceffary to give your Ground two Bufhe'Is 

 and an half an Acre, otherwife you may be 

 difappointed in your Crop: For in all Cafes 

 of Sowing, the later your Seafon is, the grea- 

 ter Quantity of Seed muft be allow'd 5 and 

 dry Ground cannot be fown too foon in a 

 proper Seafon, that the Corn may come to 

 Maturity in a cold Summer. Light gravelly 

 Soil is the moft proper for Barley and Oats 5 

 and it cannot be over rich for this Grain, tho' 

 it may for Wheat. The Seafon for Sowing of 

 Barley is the^ Month of Aprils and your Quan- 

 tity ought not generally to exceed four Bufli- 

 els to the Acre, unlefs you are very late in 

 your Sowing. The Seafon for fowing of 

 Oats is any Time in March^ and the Qiaanti- 

 ty of Seed may be from three Bufhels and an 

 half to four Bufliels the Acre 5 wherein you 

 may obferve, that if the Ground be light, 

 the lefs Seed will fuffice, becaufe fuch Land 

 is lefs fubjeft to Weeds than any other, Moift 

 heavy Clay Ground, not fit for Corn, is moft 

 agreeable to Peafe and Beans : You are to fow 

 thefe Sorts of Grain in February^ after the 

 llate of four Buflids to the Acre. New- 

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