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WHEAT AFTER BEANS. 



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sow under furrow in the spraining method a seeds- 

 man to every plough which reverses the ridges. In 

 others they lay their lands into ten or twelve fur- 

 row stitches or lands, and sow some under furrow, 

 some under the harrow. Ridges vary exceedingly, ac- 

 cording to their wetness ; and in Kent they have by 

 means of the turn-wrest plough, no lands at all, 

 but a whole field one even surface. It would be 

 useless to expatiate on the circumstances of fallow- 

 wheat, which ought no where to be found. If 

 fallows be, or are thought necessary, let them be 

 sown with barley or oats, or with any thing but 

 wheat. 



WHEAT AFTER BEANS. 



Beans, if well cultivated, form the best prepai 

 tion for wheat : I have seen in Kent a field of wheat 

 which followed four preparations, beans, clover, tares, 

 and fallow, and the first was superior to all the 

 rest ; next the clover, then the tares, and the 

 worst was after the fallow. If our young farmer 

 has a bean-stubble on which he intends sowing 

 wheat, he should be as early as possible in giving it 

 the due tillage ; this will depend on soil, for on 

 some it will be more advantageous to trust to the 

 shim, scarifiers, and scufflers, than to the plough. 

 If the land is very clean, the great Isle of Thanct 

 shim will cut through every thing, and loosen the 

 surface sufficiently to enable the harrows to leave it 

 as clean and line as a garden, women attending to 

 pick and burn. If less clean, the Kentish broad - 

 fchare tnay do the work more efteclively. In other 



cases 





