Chap. IX. Of W heat. 1 2 c> 



the Sea, without entering the Ground •, and in Sum- 

 mer a great deal of what remains is exhaled by the 

 Sun, and raifed by the Wind, both in Summer and 

 Winter. 



Some there are who think it a fatal Objection, that 

 the more an Interval is hoed, the more Weeds will 

 grow in it ; and that the Hoe can produce, or (as 

 they fay) breed in it as many Weeds in one Summer, 

 as would have come thereon in Ten Years by the old 

 Husbandry. But by this Objection they only main- 

 tain, that the Hoe can deftroy as many Weeds in One 

 Summer, as the old Hufbandry can in Ten Years. 



And they might add, that fince all Weeds that 

 grow where the Hoe comes, are killed before they 

 feed, and that few of thofe Which grow in the old 

 Hufbandry, are killed (c) before their Seed be ripe 

 and fhed -, thefe Objectors will be forced to allow, 

 that our Hufbandry will leffen a Stock of Weeds 

 more in one Summer, than theirs can do to the 

 'World's End ; unlefs they believe the equivocal Ge- 

 neration of Weeds, than which Opinion nothing can 

 be more abfurd. 



Some object again ft my Method of (d) weighing a 

 Yard, or a Perch in Length of a Row, faying, this 

 does not determine the Produce of a whole Field. 



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(c) Weeds cannot be killed before they grow, but will lie dor- 

 mant, as they do in our Partitions, and in their fown Land; and 

 while Seeds are in the Ground, they are always ready to grow 

 at the firft Opportunity, and will certainly break out at one time 

 or other; 10 that preventing their coming, is only like healing 

 up a Wound before it be cured. 



{d) I did not weigh this Yard, as different from the other Yards 

 round about it, for I had much Dih^culty to determine which 

 Row 1 mould chufe it in ; when T was going to cut in one Row, 

 it dill feemed that another was better, and i queflion whc.her 1 

 did chufe the beft at laft. 



Note, Whereas I often mention the Wheat of this Field to be 

 without Dung or Fallow, it muft be undeiitoo.i of that Part of 

 the Field wherein my Weigbinzs and other Trials were made : 



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