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the Ridge, may have more Mould under them than 

 Eight Inches on the Side of a Ridge ; and the Four 

 Inches, being in the Partitions, lofe the Benefit of 

 Horfe-hoeing. 



Inftead of ufing the middle Row as an Alloy, 'tis 

 better to plant fuch Sorts of Wheat as do not require 

 any Alloy to the double Row ; and thefe are the 

 White-cone, and above all other Sorts the right Smyrna. 



The White-cone Wheat muft not be reaped fo 

 green as the Lammas Wheat may ; for if it is not 

 full-ripe, it will be difficult to threfh it clean out of 

 the Straw. 



It happened once that my White-cone being plant- 

 ed early, and being very high, the Blade and Stalk 

 were kill'd in the Winter -, and yet it grew high again 

 in the Spring, and had then the fame Fortune a Se- 

 cond time i it lay on the Ridges like Straw, but fprung 

 out anew from the Root, and made a very good 

 Crop at Harvefl : Therefore, if the like Accident 

 fhould happen, the Owner needs not be frighted at 

 it. 



One thing that made Six-feet Ridges feem at firft 

 necelTary, was the great Breadth of the Two Par- 

 titions (which were Eight Inches apiece), which, to- 

 gether with the Earth left on each Side of the treble 

 Row not well cleanfed by Hand-work, made Two 

 large whole Furrows, at the firft Plowing for the 

 next Crop, that could not be broken by Harrows : 

 Thefe Two flrong Furrows, being turned to the Two 

 Furrows that are in the middle of a narrow Interval, 

 for making a new Ridge, would cover almoft all the 

 pulveriz'd Earth, not leaving room betwixt the Two 

 whole Furrows for the Drill to go in. But now the 

 fingle Partition, and the Earth left by the Hoe-Plough, 

 on the Outfides of the double Row, making Two 

 narrow Furrows, and the one Partition being cleanf- 

 ed, and deeper Hand-ho J d than thofe of the treble 

 Row were, or could be, are eafily broken by the 



Harrows ; 



