6o O/Hoeing. Chap. VI. 



fine Acre ; tho' the fame that is too little for the one, 

 is too much for the other; tis all mere Chance-work, 

 and they put their whole Truft in good Ground, and 

 much Dung, to cover their Errors. 



The greateft Quantity of Seed I ever heard of to 

 be ufually fown, is in IViltfiire, where I am inform- 

 ed by the Owners themfelves, that on fome Sorts of 

 Land they Tow Eight Bufheis of Barley to an Acre; 

 Jo that if it produce four Quarters to an Acre, there 

 are but four Grains for one that is fown, and is a very 

 poor Increafe, tho' a good Crop; this is on Land 

 plowed once, and then double-dung'd, the Seed 

 only harrow'd into the ftale and hard Ground (a) 9 

 'tis like not two Bufheis of' the eight will enter it to 

 grow; and I have heard, that in a dry Summer an 

 Acre of thisicarce produces four Bufheis at Harveft. 



But, in Drilling, Seed lies all the iamc jufl Depth, 

 none deeper, nor fhallower, than the reft; here's no 

 Danger of the Accidents of burying, or being un- 

 coverd, and therefore no Allowance mud be made 

 for them; but Allowance mult be made for other 

 Accidents, where the Sort of Seed is liable to them ; 

 fuch as Grub, Fly, Worm, Froft, Esfa. 



Next, when a Man unexperienced in this Method 

 has proved the Goodnefs of his Seed, and Depth to 

 plant at it, he ought to calculate what Number of 

 Seeds a Bufhel, or other Meafure or Weight, con- 

 tains : For one Bufhel or one Pound of fmall Seed, 

 may contain double the Number of Seeds, of a 

 Bufhel, or a Pound, of large Seed of the fame Species. 



This Calculation is made by weighing an Ounce, 

 and counting the Number of Seeds therein ; then 

 weighing a Bufhel of it, and multiplying the Num- 

 ber of Seeds of the Ounce, by the Number of Ounces 



(a) Stale Ground is that which has lain fome confiderable 

 time after Plowing, before it is fown, contrary to that which is 

 fown immediately after plow'd - s for this laft is generally not fo 

 hard as the former, 



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