Chap. IX. O/Wheat. 9S 



and when that Town the old Way, on the fame Field, 

 on Barley-ftubble, intirely faii'd, tho' there was no 

 other Difference but the Drilling and Hoeing : It was 

 alfo fuch an Improvement to the Land, that when 

 one Part of a ftrong whitifh Ground, all of equal 

 Goodnefs, and equally fallow'd and tilPd, was 

 dung'd and fown in the common Manner, and the 

 other Part was thus drili'd and hand-ho'd without 

 Dung, the ho'd Part was not only the beft Crop, 

 but the whole Piece being fallow'd the next Year, 

 and fown all alike by a Tenant, the ho'd Part pro- 

 duc'd fo much a better Crop of Wheat than the 

 dung'd Part, that a Stranger would have believ'd by 

 looking on it, that that Part had been dung'd which 

 was not (a), and that Part not to have been dung'd 

 which really was. 



Scarce any Land is fo unfit, and ill prepar'd, for 

 Wheat, as that where the natural Grafs (b) abounds. 

 Mod other forts of Weeds may be dealt withal when 

 they come among drili'd Wheat; but 'tis impofllble 

 to extract Grafs from the Rows : Therefore let that be 

 kill'd before the Wheat be planted. 



The Six-feet Ridges being Eleven, on Sixty-fix 

 Feet, which is an Acre's Breadth, ought to be made 

 Lengthways of the Field, if there be no Impedi- 

 ment againft it ; as if it be an Hill of any considera- 

 ble Steepnefs, then they muft be made to run up 

 and down, whether that be the Length or Breadth 

 of the Piece; for if the Ridges fhould go crofs fuch a 

 Hill, they could not be well Horfe-ho'd; becaufe 

 it would be very difficult to turn a Furrow upwards, 

 clofe to the Row above it, or to turn a Furrow down- 

 wards, without burying the Row below it; and even 



(a) If the Dung did pulverize as much as the Hoeing, the 

 Caufe muft be from the different Exhauftion. 



(b) One Bunch of natural Grafs, tranfplanted by the Plough 

 into a treble Row of Wheat, will deflroy almoft a whole Yard 

 of it. 



when 



