2 63 Of Differences between the Chap. XVII. 



Hoeing Management \ and when Three hoed Crops 

 (a) had been taken from it, it was fown with Barley, 

 and brought a very good Crop, much better than 

 ever it was known to yield before \ and then a good 

 Crop of hoed Wheat fucceeded the Barley, and then 

 it was again fown with Barley, upon the Wheat- Hub- 

 ble ♦, and that alfo was better than the Barley it ufed 

 to produce. 



Now all the Farmers of the Neighbourhood af- 

 firm, that it is impofiible but that this muft be very 

 rich Ground, becaufe they have feen it produce Six 

 Crops in Six Years, without Dung or Fallow, and 

 never one of them fail. But, alas ! this different 

 Reputation they give to the Land, does not at ail 

 belong to it, but to the different Sorts of Hufbandry ; 

 for the Nature of it cannot be altered but by that, 

 the Crops being all carried off it, and nothing added 

 to fupply the Subftance thofe Crops take from it, 

 except (what Mr. Evelyn calls) the celeftial Influ- 

 ences \ and that thefe are received by the Earth, in 

 proportion to the Degrees of its Pulveration. 



A Field was drilled with Barley after an hoedrCrop; 

 and another adjoining to it on the fame Side of the fame 

 poor Hill, and exactly the fame Sort of Land, was 

 drilled with Barley alio, Part of it after the fown Crop, 

 the fame Day with the ether ; there was only this 

 Difference in the Soil, that the former of thefe had 

 no manner of Compoit on it for many Years before, 

 and the latter was dunged the Year before : Yet its 

 Crop was not near fo good as that which followed the 

 hoed Crop (b) ; tho* the latter had twice the Plow- 

 ing that the former had before drilling, and the fame 

 Hoeings afterwards - 9 viz. Each was hoed Three times. 

 A Field of about Seventeen Acres was Summer- 

 fallowed, and drilled with Wheat ; and with the Hoe- 

 ing brought a very good Crop (except Part of it, 



{a) Thefe Three hoed Crops were of Turneps and Potatoes 

 \b) This was a Wheat Crop, and often well hoed, 



which 



