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admit, if necelTary, of two, and fome- 

 times three ploughings before the wheat 

 feed-time. The feed is to be fown the 

 laft week in July, or the firft week in 

 Auguft. If the land be not frefli, or in 

 good heart, it fhould be manured in the 

 fame proportion, with the fame fort of 

 manure, and in the fam.e manner as I 

 have recomrnended for the turnip-crop. 

 Two quarts of feed are in general enough 

 for an acre, unlefs the cultivator ihould 

 prefer ploughing, inflead of harrowmg, 

 it into the ground j, in which cafe three 

 quarts will be necefTary ; and the fur- 

 rows muft be very narrow and fhallow. 

 If the foil be rather light, I believe the 

 laft method is the heft. As foon as the 

 plants are as big as the top of a radifh, 

 when drawn for the table, they are to 

 be hoed, with a fmaller hoe than that 

 lA^hich is ufed for turnips. The rule is, 



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