Chap. VI. 0/ Hoeing. 6j 



the Ground better than when it {lands regular in 

 Rows ; this Appearance (a) is a mere Beceptio vifus *, 

 for Stalks are never fo thick on any Part of the 

 Ground as where many come out of one Plant, or 

 as when they ftand in a Row ; and a ho'd Plant of 

 Corn will have Twenty or Thirty Stalks (l>) 9 in the 

 fame Quantity of Ground where an unho'd Plant, 

 being equally fingle, will have only Two or Three 

 Stalks. Thefe tillered ho'd Stalks, if they were 

 planted fparfim all over the Interval, it might feem 

 well cover'd, and perhaps thicker than the fown Crop 

 commonly is ; fo that tho' thefe ho'd Rows feem to 

 contain a lefs Crop, they may contain, in reality, a 

 greater Crop than the fown, that feems to exceed it ; 

 and 'tis only the different Placing that makes one 

 feem greater, and the other lefs, than it really is; and 

 this is only when both Crops are young. 



The next Objection is, That the Space or Interval 

 not bzmvplanted, much of the Benefit of that Ground 

 will be loft 5 and therefore the Crop muft be lefs than 

 if it were planted all over. 



I anfwer, It might be fo, if not Horfe-ho'd ; but 

 if well Horfe-ho'd, the Roots can run through the 

 Intervals ; and, having more Nourifhment, make a 

 greater Crop. 



The too great Number of Plants, plac'd all over 

 the Ground in common fowing, have, whilfl it is 

 open, an Opportunity of wafting 9 when they are very 

 young, that Stock of Provifion, for Want of which 

 the greateft Part of them are afterwards flarv'd -, for 



(a) For the Eye to make a Companion betwixt a fown Crop 

 and fuch a ho'd Crop, it ought, when 'tis half grown, to look 

 en the ho'd Crop acrofs the Rows ; becaufe in the other it does 

 fo, in Effect, which way foever it iooks ; but whatever Appear- 

 ance the ho'd Crop of Vegetables (of as large a Species as Wheat) 

 makes when young, it furely, if well managed, appears more 

 beautiful at Harvelt than a fown Crop. 



(b) I have counted Fifty large Ears on one fingle ho'd Plant 

 of Barley. 



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