114 Of Wheat. Chap. IX. 



knowingly to efcape, that is in the lead contrary to 

 it. 



I have a Piece of Five or Six Acres of Land 

 which I annually plant with boiling Peafe, in the 

 very fame manner as Wheat; except that the Second 

 Horfe-hoeing (which is the laft) throws the Earth lb 

 far upon the Peafe as to make the Two Rows become 

 One. Thefe Feafe cannot be planted until after the 

 25th of March ; dfc Two Horfe-hoeings might not 

 be fufficient. The fame Drill that plants Wheat plants 

 Peafe •, only fometimes we change the Spindle for one 

 that has its Notches a little bigger. 



I drill no more Barley, becaufe 'tis not proper to 

 be followed by a Crop of Wheat without a Fallow ; 

 for fome of the mattered Barley will live over the 

 Winter, and mix with the Wheat in the Rows, and 

 can fcarce poffibly be thence timely taken out, its 

 firfb Stalk and Blade being difficult to diftinguifh from 

 the Wheat •, and this is a great Damage to the Sale 

 in the Market ; and for the fame Realbn I plant no 

 more Oats. 



The Firft Hoeing is performed by turning a Fur- 

 row from the Row. 



We are not fo exacl as to the Weather in the Firft 

 Hoeing ; for if the Earth be wet, the Hoe-plough 

 may go nearer to the Row, without burying the 

 Wheat ; and the Froft of the Winter will pulverize 

 that Part of the (a) Furrow, which is to be thrown 

 to the Wheat in the Spring, altho' it was hoed wet. 



Neither is it necefTary to be very exacl as to Time ; 

 but it mud never be till the Wheat has more than 

 One Blade ; and it may be foon enough, when it has 

 Four or Five Leaves, fo that it is done before (b)^ 

 or in the Beginning of Winter. 



The 



(a) The Word Farr >w fignines the Earth that is thrown out, 

 as well as the Trench from whence it is thrown by the Plough. 



fb) But if the Wheat is planted very late, it may not be hoe- 

 able before the Winter is pall; nor is there fuch a Necefiky of 



hoeing 



