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their irregular Standing prevents their being relieved 

 with frefh Supplies from the Hoe: Hence it is, that 

 the old Method exhaufting the Earth to no Purpofe, 

 produces a lefs Crop ; and yet leaves lefs Pabulum 

 behind for a fucceeding one, contrary to the Hoeing- 

 Hufbandry, wherein Plants are manag'd in all Re- 

 fpects by a quite different Oeconomy. 



In a large Ground of Wheat it was prov'd, that 

 the widefl: ho'd Intervals brought the greater!' Crop 

 of all : Dung without Hoeing did not equal Hoeing 

 without Dung. And what was mod remarkable, 

 amongft Twelve Differences of wider and narrower 

 Spaces, more and lefs ho'd, dung'd and undung'd, 

 the Hand-fow'd was confiderably the word of all ; 

 tho' all the Winter and Beginning of the Spring, 

 that made infinitely the moil promifing Appearance ; 

 but at Harveft yielded but about One-fifth Part of 

 W r heat of that which was mofl hoed ; there was 

 fome of the moft hoed, which yielded Eighteen 

 Ounces of clean Wheat in a Yard in Length of a dou- 

 ble Row, the Intervals being thirty Inches, and the 

 Partition Six Inches (a). 



A Third Objection like the two former is, that fo 

 fmall a Part of the Ground, as that whereon the Row 

 Hands, cannot contain Plants or Stalks fufncient for 

 a full Crop. 



This fome Authors endeavour to fupport by Argu^ 

 ments taken from the perpendicular Growth of Vege- 

 tables, and the Room they require to ftand on ; both 

 which having anfwer'd elfewhere, I need not fay 

 much of them here j only I may add, that if Plants 

 could be brought to as great Perfection, and lb to 



(a) The fame Harveft, a Yard in Length of a double Row of 

 Barley, having Six Inches Partition, produced Eight hundred and 

 Eighty Ears in a Garden ; but the Grains happened to be eaten 

 by Poultry before 'twas ripe, {o that their Produce of Grains 

 cculd not be known : One like Yard of a ho'd Row of Wheat, 

 in an undung'd Field, produc'd Four hundred Ears of Lammas- 

 Wheat. 



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