134 Of Wheat. Chap. IX. 



Wheat, with the Expence of Ten or Fifteen Shil- 

 lings, is above a Third Part more profitable. 



I don't 



be towards the Row, except when the Earth is turned towards it; 

 and then the Face muft be always towards it; but for the reft of 

 the laft Koeings, the Spade mould work with its Face towards 

 one or other of the Ends of the Intervals, that the fewer of the 

 Roots may be cut off, and the more of them removed, and cover- 

 ed again. Let the Spits be thin for the better pulverizing of the 

 Mould. The Hand-hoe will fometimes be ufeful in the Inter- 

 vals, as well as in the Partitions. 



Four or Five Perches of Land may fuffice for making proper 

 Trials. 



The Expence of this will be little, though perhaps Ten times 

 more than that which is done by the proper Inftruments for the 

 fame Proportion of Land. 



But I muft give this Caution, that no Part of it be done out of 

 the Reach of the Mailer's Eye ; for if it mould, he may expect 

 to be difappointed. 



The richer the Land, the thinner it muft be planted to prevent 

 the lodging of Corn. 



The Mafter ought to compute the Quantity of Seed, due to 

 each Perch, at the Rate of Five or Six Gallons to an Acre, by- 

 Weighing, cj*V. as I have {hewn in my Eflay 



I cannot commend more than Two Partitions in a Row, or 

 more than One, when the Intervals are narrow j becaufe the 

 broader the Row is, the more Earth will remain un-pulverized, 

 under the Partitions j too much of which Earth being whole, 

 will difapppint, at leaft, one of the Differences mentioned in my 

 xviith Chapter. - 



Indifferent Land I think tnoft proper whereon to make the Ex- 

 periment, and th^ meft improper lor Coin is barren Land, as the 

 beft brings the largeft Crops. 



To afcertain the Quantity of the Crop, take a Yard in the 

 Middle of a Ridge, and weigh its Produce. 



Every Year ieave one Interval unhoed, to prove the Difference 

 of that Side of a double or treble Row next to it, from the other 

 Side next to the hoed Interval. 



Eut it muft be noted, that the Spade doth not always pulverize 

 fo much as the Plough, or Hoe-piough ; therefore there may be 

 pecafion for more D ggings than there would be of Horfe-^joeings. 



One of the Obfervations that put me upon Trials of wide In- 

 tervals, and Horfe work for Corn, was the following ; *viz. One 

 or a poorilh Field was fown with Barley ; the other Half 

 drilled with Turners, the Rows Thirty Inches afunder, at the 

 proper Seafon, and twice hoed with a Sort of Horfe-hoe con^ 



trived 



