108 Of Wheat. Chap. IX. 



you can perceive it to be coming up, they will find it, 

 and dig it up to eat the Grain; therefore you mud 

 keep them off for a Week or Ten Days ; and in that 

 time the Blade will become green, and the Grain fo 

 much exhaufted of its Flour, that the Rooks think 

 it not worth while to dig after it. 



But the Rooks do not moleft Wheat that is plant- 

 ed before or a little after St. Michael - y for then there 

 remains Corn enough in the Fields, which is left at 

 Harveft above-ground, that Rooks prefer always 

 before Corn which mull <:oft them the Labour of 

 digging to find it. 



Of Partitions. 



I have now intirely left out the middle Row for 

 Wheat, and keep only to the double Row, for the 

 following Reafons. 



It makes the cleanfing from Weeds more difficult, 

 than when there is only a double Row. 



The Hand-hoe cannot give near lb much Nourifh- 

 ment (i. e. pulverize fo much Earth) in Two Seven- 

 inch Partitions, as it can in One Ten-inch Partition. 



There is Four Inches lefs Earth to be. pulveriz'd 

 by the Horfe-hoe from the Surface of a Ridge that 

 has Two Seven- inch Partitions, than from a Ridge 

 that hath One Ten-inch Partition. 



The Ridge muft be almoit twice as deep in Mould 

 for the treble as for the double Row, or elfe the 

 middle Row will be very weak and poor •, and then, 

 according to the Principles, the whole Ridge will be 

 more exhaufted, than by an equal Product produced 

 by lirong Plants. 



As the Ridges may be much lower that have only 

 the one Partition, fo the Intervals may be narrower, 

 and yet have as much Earth in them to be pulve- 

 riz'd, as in wide ones that are betwixt treble Rows ; 

 becaufe the Four Inches that are in the two Partitions 

 more than in the fingle Partition, being on the Top of 



the 



