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of it above Two Feet diftant from even the middle 

 Row, and Seventeen Inches from either ©f the outride 

 Rows. 



And I have plainly proved, that the Roots of 

 Cone-wheat have reached Mould at Two Feet Di- 

 flance, after pafTing through another Row at a Foot 

 Diftance from it, the Plants being then but Eighteen 

 Inches high, and but half-grown. 



Farmers do not grudge to beftow Three or Four 

 Pounds in the Buying and Carriage of Dung for an 

 Acre ; but think themfelves undone, if they afford an 

 extraordinary Eighteen-penyworth of Earth to the 

 wide Intervals of an Acre; not confidering that Earth 

 is not only the beft, but alfo the cheapeft Entertain- 



Thefe feveral different Managements performed in this Field, 

 Ihewed by the different Succefs of the Crops in each Sort, what 

 ought to be done, and which is the beft Sort of Management. 



This Field indeed is fome of my beft Land ; and by all the 

 Experiments I have feen on it, I do not find but that, by the 

 beft Management, never omitted in any Year, it might produce 

 good annual Crops of Wheat always, without Affiftance of Dung 

 or Fallow ; but it would be very difficult for me to get Hands to 

 do this to the greateft Perfection, unlefs I were able conftantly to 

 attend them. 



The whole pulverized Earth of the Interval being pretty- 

 equally fed on by the former Crop, 'tis no great Matter in what 

 Part of it the following Crop is drill'd : I never drill it but on 

 the Middle of the laft Year's Interval, becaufe there is the Trench 

 whereon the next Year's Ridge is made with the greateft Con- 

 veniency : But there may be fome Reafon to fufpett, that the 

 Plants of the Rows exhauft more Hourifhment from that Earth 

 of the Intervals which is fartheft from their Bodies, than from 

 that which is neareft to them : Since their fibrous Roots, at the 

 greateft Diftance from the Rows, are moft numeaous, cifr. by 

 thefe the Plants, when they are at their greateft Bulk, are chiefly 

 maintained. 



It muft be noted) that the above Experiments would not have 

 been a full Proof, if Weeds had been fuffered to grow in the 

 Partitions of the Ends of thofe Ridges, in the Year wherein 

 the Difference appeared. It may alfo be noted, that a Mixture 

 and Variety of bad Hufbandry are ufeful for a Difcovery of the 

 Theory and Pra&ice of good Hufbandry. 



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