5>8 O/Wheat. Chap. IX. 



But the Method of making Ridges for a fucceed- 

 ing Crop, after the former is harvefted, is bed per- 

 form'd as follows : In making Ridges for Wheat after 

 Wheat, you muft raife them to their full Height, 

 before you plow the old Partitions, with their Stub- 

 ble, up to them *, for if you go about to make the 

 Ridges higher afterwards, the Stubble will fo mix 

 with the Mould of their Tops, that it may not only 

 be an Hindrance to the Drill, but alfo to the Firft 

 Hoeing ; becaufe if the Hoe-plough goes fo near to 

 the Rows as it ought, it would be apt to tear out the 

 Wheat-plants along with the Stubble. 



In Reaping, we cut as near as we can to the Ground 

 (a)\ which is eafily done, becaufe the Stalks fland 

 all clofe together at Bottom, contrary to thofe of 

 fown Wheat. 



I find this Stubble, when 'tis only mixt with the 

 Intervals, very beneficial to the Hoeing of my Wheat; 

 but I know not whether it may be fo in rich miry 

 Land. 



As foon as conveniently you can, after the Crop 

 of Wheat is carried off (if the Trench in the Middle 

 of each wide Interval be left deep enough by the lad 

 Hoeing), go as near as you can to the Stubble with a 

 common Plough, and turn Two large Furrows into 

 the Middle of the Intervals, which will .(b) make a 



Ridge 



[a] When Wheat is reap"d very low, the Stubble is no great 

 Impediment ,- and 1 do this when I am fore'd to inlarge the 

 Breadth of my Ridges, or to change their Bearing, as I do when 

 f and it convenient for them to pomt Crofs-ways of the Field in- 

 ftead of Length ways ; as if one End of it be wetter than the 

 ocher : For 'tis inconvenient, that one End of a Ridge mould be 

 in the wet Part, and the other in the dry • becaufe, in that Cafe, 

 we cannot hoe the dry End without hoeing the wet at the fame 

 time ; and whilft we attend for the wet Part to become dry, it 

 may happen, that the Seafon for hoeing the whole (if the Quan- 

 tity be great) may be loft. 



{It 'Tis the Depth and Finenefs of this Ridge that the Succefs4>f 

 Jur Crop depends on ; the Plams having nothing die w mam tarn 



them- 



