^6 THE RURAL SOCRATES. 



dies) of ilraw. — The feconddivifion is fowed either with 

 rye, beans, pcafcjor oats. The allowance is three bulhcls 

 and an half of feed an acre. He gathers from this eighty 

 iheaves an acre, which yield annually at leall five 



coombs of grain and forty bundles offtraw. The 



third divifion remains fallow.— Kliyogg has alfo fomc 

 inclofures, which he fows every year. Thefe are 

 manured twice in three years, which he is peculiarly 

 careful never to negled $ conftantly varying the grain 

 every time. 



His computation for ploughing is, a complete day's^ 

 labor for two men and four oxen for each acre.* 



Purfuant to the cuflom of the country^ be gives to the 

 firfl diviiion three ploughings : namely, in the fpring 

 before the month of May, immediately after hay fea- 

 fon, and at the endof harveft. — The fecond divifion, if 

 it does not interfere with more material bufinefs, and 

 can be accomplifhed without great inconvefiience, is 

 ploughed twice; namely, at theconclufion of harveft and 

 immediately before the feed-time.— -Light foils, fays he^ 

 requite to be lightly ploughed; and on the contrary, 

 heavy clayey ground fnould be ploughed very deep, 

 that thefinefibres of the roots may infmuate themfelves 

 with eafe among the particles of the broken clods ; but 

 in a light foil, we mufl endeavor to preCerve fufficient 

 folidity for the roots to flrike. — Wheat (hoots ftrongeft 

 when there is an interval between the time of plough^ 

 jng and fovving. Barley is mofl vegetativ*i when fowed- 

 immediately after the plough. Light lands are be ft fop 

 barley, but wheat thrives beft on a IViff foil. 



Kliyogg likewife obferves, that whoever is defirous of 

 conPcantly plentiful crops, (hould be fcnfible how very 



effential 



* Thi» is a rei^arkablc U6{. I have, in a former naffc, (hewn, that a 

 Zurich acre is hut a liitie more ihaii three roodsEngllQi ; confequently this 

 i? very pmit work tor four oxen to perform, efpecially under the eye of fa 

 inrluflrious atnan as Kliyogg. I conclude from hence, that the beads are 

 very mean cnrs. I iifed oxen in Suflfolk, and a fingle pair ploughed m-e 

 2n acre a day withow^ any eHtraordinary cxtruon. They roll roc 1 5J. a 

 pair, \% 



