Chap. IX. Of Wheat. i 3 r 



Country within my Reach, that being not above One 

 Mile. 



As a Yard in Length of my treble Row of the 

 Third fucceflive Crop of Wheat, without Dung or 

 Fallow, produced Twenty Ounces of Wheat; which, 

 allowing Six Feet to the Ridge, is about Six Quar- 

 ters (a) to an Acre ; and, allowing Seven Inches to 

 each Partition, and Two Inches on each Outfide, is 

 in all Eighteen Inches of Ground to each treble 

 Row, and but juft One-fourth Part of the Ridge. 

 Now, if, in the old Hufbandry, the Crop was as 

 good all over the Ground, as it was in thefe Eighteen 

 Inches of the treble Row, they muft have Twenty- 

 four Quarters to an Acre; but let them dung whiift 

 they can, they will fcarce raife Twenty-four Gallons 

 of Wheat the Third Year, on an Acre of Land of 

 equal Goodnefs; and let them leave out their Dung, 

 and add no more Tillage in lieu of it* and I believe 

 they will not expect Three Quarters to an Acre, in 

 all the Three Years put together. 



The mean Price of Wheat, betwixt Dear and 

 Cheap, is reckoned Five Shillings a Bufhel (J?) ; and 



there- 



(a) Eight Bufhete make a Quarter. 



{b) 'Tis commonly faid, that a Farmer cannot thrive, who for 

 want of Money is obliged to fell his Wheat under Five Shillings 

 a Bufhel ; but if he will fell it dear, he 'mail keep it when 'tis 

 cheap ; And his Way of keeping it is in the Straw, ufing his 

 belt Contrivances to preferve it from the Mice. 



The moil fee u re Way of keeping a great Quantity of Wheat, 

 that ever I heard of, is by drying it. When 1 lived in Oxford* 

 Jbire, one of rny neareft Neighbours was very expert in this, 

 having pradlifed it for great Part of his Life: When Wheat was 

 under Three Shillings a 3 u ft el, he bought in the Markets as much 

 of the middle Sort of Wheat as his Money would reach to pur- 

 chafe: He has often told me, that his Method was to dry it upon 

 an Hair-cloth, in a Malt-kiln, with no other Fuel than clean 

 Wheat-Straw; never foffering it to have any ftronger Heat I 

 that of the Sun. The longeit time he ever let it remain in this 

 Heat was Twelve Hours, and the fhonejl time about Four Hours; 

 the damper the Wheat was, and the longer in: ended to be kept, 



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