272 Of Differences beween the Chap. XVJL 



Their One Tear's Tillage, which is but Two PUr&ihgi 



before Seed-time, commonly makes but little Duft ; and 

 that which it does make, has but a Jhort time to lie expofed 

 for Impregnation \ and after the Wheat is fown, the 

 Land lies unmoved for near Twelve Months, all the 

 while gradually lofing its Pafture, by fub/iding, and 

 by being continually exhaufted in feeding a treble Stock 

 of Wheat-plants, and a Stock of Weeds, which are 

 fometimes a greater Stock. This puts the Advocates 

 for the old Method upon a Neceffity of ufing of Dung, 

 which is, at befi, but a Succedaneum of the Hoe-, 

 for it depends chiefly on the Weather, and other Acci- 

 dents, whether it may prove fufficient by Fermentation 

 to pulverize in the Spring, or no : And it is a Queftion 

 whether it will equal Two additional (a) Hoeings, or 

 but one ; tho\ as I have computed it> one Dunging cofts 

 the Price of One hundred Hoeings. 



When they have done all they can, the Pafture 

 they raife is generally too little for the Stock that 

 is to be maintained upon it, and much the greater!: 

 Part of the Wheat-plants are ftarved -, for from 

 Twenty Gallons of Seed they fow on an Acre, they 

 receive commonly no more than Twenty Bufhels (b) 

 of Wheat in their Crop, which is but an Increafe of 

 Eight Grains for one : Nov/, confidering how many 

 Grains there are in one good Ear, and how many Ears 



by the nitrous Air, as much as if it were all clean plowed at the 

 time of every Hoeing, and the Weeds are as much {lifted, or 

 fuffocated. 



(a) Additional, becaufe there mud flrftbe feveral Hoeings to 

 make our treble Row equal to an undunged Six-feet Ridge of 

 fdwn Wheat. 



(b) And they have oftener lefs than Sixteen Bufhels ; and in 

 the Harveft 1735, a fubilantial experienced Farmer had no more 

 than Four Bufhels of Wheat to an Acre throughout a Field of 

 Forty Acres, being robbed by Poppies; and I have known a Crop 

 that has amounted to do more than Two Bufhels to an Acre, and 

 fome Crops lefs, tho 1 dunged and fallowed ; fo that, taking the 

 common fown Crops of Wheat one with another, they are thought 

 not to amount to Sixteen. Bufhels to an Acre, communilus anni?. 



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