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ally juft after the Wheat is gone out of the RlofTom-, 

 and when iuch hoed Grains weigh double the Weight 

 of the fame Number of unhoed (which they frequently 

 will) tho' the Number of Grains in the hoed are only 

 equal, yet the hoed Crop muft be double. 



Thus, by increafing the Number of Stalks (p) 9 

 bringing more of them up into Ear (q\ making the 

 Ears larger (r), and the Grain plumper, and fuller of 

 Elour (j), the Hoeing Method makes a greater Crop 



from 



[p) The fame Plant that, when poor, fends out but Two or 

 Three Tillers, would, if well nourifhed by the Hoe, or other- 

 wife, fend up a Multitude of Tillers, as is feen in hoed Wheat, 

 and fown Wheat. 



(q) Mr. Houghton relates Eighty Ears on one fmgle Plant of 

 Wheat, and a greater Number has been counted lately in a Gar- 

 den : Thofe Eighty, reckoned to have Fifty Grains apiece, make 

 an Increafe of Four thoufand Grains for one; but I have never 

 found above Forty Ears from a fmgle Plant in my Fields ; yet 

 there is no doubt, but that every Plant would produce as many as 

 Mr. Houghton s, of the fame Sort, with the fame Nourishment ; 

 But I mould not defire any to be fo prolific in Stalks, left they 

 lhould fail of bringing fuch a Multitude of Ears to Perfection. 

 The Four hundred Ears, that I numbered in a Yard, were not 

 weighed, becaufe they were told before ripe ; and the greateft 

 Weight of Wheat that ever I had from a Yard, was the Product 

 of about Two hundred and Fifty Ears, and fome of them were 

 fmall. 



(r) I have numbered One hundred and Nine Grains in One 

 Ear of my hoed Cone-wheat of the grey Sort ; and One Ear of 

 my hoed Lammas-wheat has been meafured to be Eight Inches 

 long, which is double to thofe of fown Wheat. I have fome of 

 thefe Ears now by me almoft as long, the longed being given 

 away as a Rarity ; and indeed 'tis not every Year that they grow 

 to that Length, and 'tis always where the Plants are pretty fingle. 

 But there is no Year wherein One Ear of my heed does not more 

 than weigh Two of the fown Ears, taking a whole Sheaf of each 

 together without choofing. The Sheaves of the hoed are of a 

 different Shape from the other; almoft all the Ears of the hoed 

 are at the Top of the Sheaf; but moft of the other are iituate at 

 the lower Part, or near the Middle of the Sheaf. 



(/) Seed Cone wheat coming all out at the fame Heap, planted 

 all at the fame Time, and on Land of the fame Sort adjoining 

 near together, the Wheat that was fown produce4 Grains fo fmall. 



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