6i O/Hoeing. Chap. VL 



I formerly was at much Pains, and at fome Charge, 

 in improving my Drills, for planting the Rows at 

 very near Diftances ; and had brought them to fuch 

 Perfection, that One Horfe would draw a Drill with 

 Eleven Shares, making the Rows at three Inches and 

 half Diftance from one another; and at the fame 

 Time fow in them Three very different Sorts of 

 Seeds, which did not mix ; and thefe too, at different 

 Depths; as the Barley-Rows were feven Inches afun- 

 der, the Barley lay four Inches deep ; a little more 

 than three Inches above that, in the fame Chanels, 

 was Clover ; betwixt every Two of thefe Rows was 

 a Row of St. Foin, cover'd half an Inch deep. 



I had a good Crop of Barley the firft Year ; the 

 next Year, Two Crops of Broad-Clover, where that 

 was fown ; and where Hop-Clover was fown, a mix'd 

 Crop of That and St. Foin, and every Year after- 

 wards a Crop of St. Foin •, but I am fince, by Ex- 

 perience, fo fully convinced of the Folly of thefe, 

 or any other fuch mix'd Crops, and more efpecially 

 of narrow Spaces, that I have demolilh'd thefe In- 

 ftruments (in their full Perfection) as a vain Curiofity, 

 the Drift and Ufe of them being contrary to the t*ue 

 Principles and Practice of Horfe-Hoeing. 



Altho' I am fatisfied, that every one, who (hall 

 have feen as much of it as I have, will be of my 

 Mind in this Matter; yet I am aware, that what I am. 

 going to advance, wili feem fhocking to them, before 

 they have made Trials. 



I lay it down as a Rule (to myfelf ) that every Row 

 of Vegetables, to be Horfe-ho'd, ought to have an 

 empty Space or Interval of thirty Inches on one Side 

 of it (a) at leail, and of near five Feet in all Sorts 

 of Corn. 



In 



(a) Note, We call it one Row, tho' it be a Double, Treble, or 

 Quadruple Row ; becaufe when they unite in the Spring, they 

 feem to be all imgle; even the Quadruple then is but as one fmgle 

 Row. Obfer^ij, 



