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ment that can be given to Plants •, for at Five Shil- 

 lings and Six-pence Rent, the whole Earth belonging 

 to each of our Rows cofts only Six-pence, i. e. a Peny 

 for a Foot broad, and Six hundred and Sixty Feet 

 long-, that being the Sixty-fixth Part of an Acre (x). 



And if for conftant annual Wheat-crops you make 

 fewer than Eleven Rows on Four Perches Breadth, you 

 will always increafe the Expence of Hoeing; becaufe 

 then Two Furrows will not Hoe One of thofe Inter- 

 vals, and you will alfo thereby leffen the Crops, but 

 improve the Land more : And if you increafe that 

 Number of Rows, you will thereby increafe every 

 Expence •, for there mufl be Two Furrows to hoe a 

 narrow Interval, and an Increafe of the Quantity of 

 Seed, and the Labour in uncovering, weeding, and 

 reaping-, and alfo you will lefs improve the Land, and 

 lefTen the Crops after the Firft Year. 



If the Intervals are narrower in deep Land, tho' 

 there might be Mould enough in them, yet there 

 would not be Room to pulverize it. 



If narrower in fhallow Land, tho' there were 

 Room, yet there would not be Mould enough in 

 them to be pulverized. 



The Horfe-hoe, well applied, doth fupply theUie 

 of Dung and Fallow - y but it cannot fupply the Ufe of 

 Earth, tho' it can infinitely increafe the vegetable Fa- 

 ilure of it, by pulverizing it, where it is in a reafonable 

 Quantity: Yet if the Intervals be fo narrow, that near 

 all the Earth of them goes to make the Partitions 

 raifed at the Top of the Ridges, there will be fo little 

 to be pulverized, that you mull: return to Fallowing, 



(x) But the Vulgar compute this Expence of a Foot Breadth 

 of Ground, not only as of the Rent, as they ought, but as an 

 Eleventh Pare of th^ir own ufual Charges added to the Rent. 



And there is Land enough in England to be had, at the Rent 

 of Five Shillings and Six-pence the Acre, that is very proper for 

 Wheat in th« Hoeing- Hutbandry. 



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