138 Of Wheat. Chap. DC 



I don't know that I ever had an Acre yet, that was 

 tolerably well managed in this Manner, but what 

 produced much more. 



CHAR 



Truth of what I have related in p. 27, 28. concerning the won- 

 derful Effect of deep Hoeing. Jn a Field of very poor old de- 

 cayed St. Foin, let Two or Three Perches be hedged in, in a 

 fquare Piece, and Two, Three, or more Intervals, of Three or 

 Four Feet wide each, be well pulverized by the Spade, leaving 

 between every Two of them, Two or Three Feet of the St. Foin 

 unmoved. Begin this Work in Summer, and repeat the Hoeing 

 pretty often, obferving the Rules I have laid down for Hoeing 

 the Intervals of Wheat. Let not the Back of the Spade be turned 

 towards the unmoved St. Foin, from which it throws the Earth 

 at the Firft time of Hoeing ; which is contrary to the Firft Hoe- 

 ing of Wheat with a Spade ; becauie there would otherwife be 

 Danger of moving Wheat-roots ; but there is no Danger of 

 moving the St. Foin Roots, unlefs you wholly dig them out : 

 Therefore the beft Way for this Hoeing is to dig with the Back of 

 the Spade towards one or the other End of the Interval: This 

 cuts off the feweft Root?, and covers the moil of them, and may 

 perhaps be fometimes bell for Wheat alfo. When the Earth i-; 

 turned towards the St. Foin Rows, the Spade's Face will be to- 

 wards them of courfe. 



Be fure to leave Four or more Feet untouched next to the Hedge 

 that bounds the Piece, to the End that the Increafe of tne hoed 

 Sr. Foin may the more plainly appear by comparing its Plants 

 with thofe that are not hoed. 



If the Plants are very thick, make them thinner on one fide 

 of an Interval ; and, on the other fide, let them remain thick. 

 You will certainly find the thin Plants moil wonderfully increafed 

 in a Year or two, and the thick ones in proportion; and alfo the 

 natural Grafs, and all other Vegetables that grow near to the 

 Intervals when they are well pulverized. I am confident mine, 

 thus managed by Ploughs, increafed fome to an Hundred, fome to 

 a Thoufand times the Size they were of before that Pulveration. 



All the Methods I have here and elfewhere defcribed for the 

 Field, I advife to be tried in thefe few Perches for Experiments. 



I think fome of thofe Ridges whereon one End is to be ma- 

 naged differently from the other End, fiiould be longer than Si* 

 Feet; e\{e the Roots of the Wheat and Weeds may fo mix, and 

 draw Nourilhrnent from one another in the Middle of the Ridge, 

 that the Difference of the Managements mzy not (o plainly be feen 

 as when the Ridge is longer. 



The few Perches of Land whereon any of the propofed Expe- 

 riments are to be made, ihould be bounded in with dead Hedges; 



and 



