1 16 Of Wheat. Chap. IX, 



and to the Dung-cart, and to all the old exorbitant 

 Charges (y). 



Eight Acres, Part of a Ground of Twenty Acres, 

 drilled with Intervals of Three Feet and an half, 

 brought a good Crop - y but the Second Year, not 

 being hoed, the Crop was poor •, and the Third 

 Crop made that Land fo foul and turfy, that 'twas 

 forced to lie for a Fallow, there being no way to 

 bring it into Tilth without a Summer-plowing (z), 

 when the reft of the fame Piece, in wider Intervals, 

 being conflantly hoed, continued in good Tilth, and- 

 never failed to yield a good Crop, without miffing 

 one Year. 



In another Field, there is now a Sixth Crop of 

 Wheat, in wide Intervals, very promifing, tho 3 this 

 Ground has had no fort of Dung to any of thefe 

 Crops, or in feveral Years before them : The laffc 

 Year's Crop was the Fifth, and was the beft of the 

 Five, tho' a Yard of the Row yielded but Eighteen 

 Ounces and Three Quarters ; and the Third Crop 

 yielded Twenty Ounces Weight {a) of clean Wheat 



in 



( y) The Objections againft thefe wide Intervals are only for 

 faving a Penyworth or Two of Earth in each Row, or a few 

 Groats-worth of it in an Acre ; by faving of which Earth they 

 may lofe, in the prefent and fucceeding Crops, more Pounds. 



(z) This Narrownefs of the Intervals, if the Damage of it be 

 rightly computed, would amount to half the Inheritance of the 

 Land ; and was occafioned by the Wilfulnefs of my Bailiff, who, 

 drilling ic upon the Level, ordered the Horfe to be guided half a 

 Yard within the Mark, becaafe he fanfied the Intervals would be 

 too wide, if he followed my Directions. 



{a) Wheat, before Harveft, ftand:ng in Rows with wide In- 

 tervals betwixt them, may not feem, to the Eye, to equal a Crop 

 of half the Bignefs difperfed all over the Land, when iown in the 

 common Manner ; and yet there is more Deceit in the Appear- 

 ance of thofe different Crops, whilft they are ypung, and in Grafs : 

 We fhould therefore not judge of them then by our Imagination, 

 hut as we do of the Sun and Moon nigh the Horizon, viz. by 

 our Reafon. 



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