Chap. IX. Of Wheat. v IO j 



dry will afford it j for there its Ears grow not much 

 bigger than thoie of common Wheat : This I believe 

 to be, for that Reafon, the very bed Sort for the Hoe- 

 in^ Hufbandry; next to this I efteem the White-cone 

 Wheat, then the Grey-cone. I have had very good 

 Crops from other Sorts ; but look upon thefe to be 

 the beft. 



When Wheat is planted early, lefs Seed is requi- 

 red than when late; becaufe lefs of it will die in the 

 Winter than of that planted late, and it has more 

 Time to tiller (a). 



Poor Land mould have more Seed than rich Land, 

 becaufe a lefs Number of the Plants will furvive the 

 Winter on poor Land. 



The leaft Quantity of Seed may fuffice for rich 

 Land that is planted early •, for thereon very few Plants 

 will die ; and the Hoe will caufe a fmall Number of 

 Plants to fend out a vaft Number of Stalks, which 

 will have large Ears ; and in thefe, more than in the 

 Number of Plants, confifts the Goodnefs of a 

 Crop {b). 



Another thing muft be confider'd, in order to find 

 thejuft Proportion of Seed to plant; and that is, 

 that fome Wheat has its Grains twice as big as 

 other Wheat of the fame Sort ; and then a Bulhel 

 (c) will contain but half the Number of Grains ; 

 and one Bufhel of Small- grain'd Wheat will plant as 

 much Ground as Two Bufhels of the Large-grain'd ; 

 for, in Truth, 'tis not the Meafure of the Seed, but 

 the Number of the Grains, to which refpeel: ought 

 to be had in apportioning the Quantity of it to the 

 Land. 



[a) To tiller is p branch out into many Stalks, and is 'the 

 Country Word, that fignifies the fame with fruticare. 



\b) A too great Number of Plants do neither tiller, nor produce 

 fo large Ears, nor make half fo good a Crop, as a bare competent 

 Number of Plants will. 



(<■) Our Bufhel contains Seventy Pounds of the bell Wheat. 



Some 



