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during the common and ufual Wheat-feed time, that 

 is proper for the fort of Wheat to be drill'd, and the 

 fort of Land, whether that be early or late, we may 

 drill earlier, but not later than the fowing Farmers. 

 But I have had good Crops of Wheat drill'd at all 

 Times betwixt Harveft and the Beginning of No*- 

 "vember. 



For the Benefit of the middle Rows, 'tis better not 

 to drill Wheat on ftrong Land before the ufual Seafon ; 

 becaufe the later 'tis planted, the more open the Par- 

 titions will be for the Roots of thofe Rows to run 

 through them in the Spring: and yet, if the Earth 

 of the Partitions be plow'd very wet, tho' late, they 

 may be harder at the Spring, than thofe which are 

 plow'd early and dry. 



There is a Sort of Wheat call'd by fome (a) 

 Smyrna Wheat : It has a prodigious large Ear, with 

 many lefs (or collateral) Ears, coming all round 

 the Bottom of this Ear-, as it is the largeft of all 

 Sorts of Wheat, fo it will difpenfe with theNourifh- 

 ment of a Garden, without being over-fed, and re- 

 quires more Nourimment than the common Hufban- 



and therefore they call the Top of a Ridge a Veering ; they call 

 the Two Furrows that are turn'd from each other at the Bottom, 

 between Two Ridges, a Henting, ;'. e, an Ending : becaufe it 

 makes an End of plowing Ridges. 



Our Intervals wholly confiil of Veerings or Hentings ; when 

 Two Furrows are turn'd from the Rows, they make a Veering; 

 when turn'd towards the Rows, they are a Henting, which is the 

 deep wide Trench in the Middle of an Interval. 



(a) 'Tis faid to grow moitly in fome Iflands of the drcbipelago, 

 and fome Author defcribes it Triticum [pica ■ multtplici : There is 

 another Sort of Wheat that has many little Ears coming out of 

 Two Sides of the main Ear, but this is very late ripe, and doth 

 not fucceed well here, nor is it liked by them who have fovvn it ; 

 yet I have had fome Ears of it by chance among my drill'd 

 Wheat, which have been larger than thofe of any common Sort. 

 I have not as yet been able to procure any of the Smyrna Wheat, 

 which 1 look on as a great Misfortune ; but I had fome of it 

 above Forty Years ago. 



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