of the large weeds are pulled up, the others 

 remain, run to feed, and fill the land with 

 weeds ; and thefe, together with thofe that 

 were pulled up, and a large quantity of feed- 

 corn, very much impoveriQi the land. To 

 fupport thefe, and keep the foil open for the 

 roots to fpread in it, dung is added to the til- 

 lage : but, as the land receives no more tillage 

 while the crop is growing, from feed- time to 

 harveft, which for wheat is from Septem- 

 ber to Auguft, or^ about ten months, and 

 more in very light land, the land during that 

 time becomes ftale and hard, particularly 

 flrong land ; for the tiHage, to open, the land, 

 makes it lighter and more porous than it was 

 naturally ; but no fooner is the tillage finimed, 

 than the earth begins to fettle and fubfide, 

 and continues to do fo till it recovers its na- 

 tural fpecific gravity, and it then becomes as 

 clofe and confolidated as it Was before any til- 

 lage was beftowed upon it. This gradually 

 TJOnfines the tender roots of the plants, fo 

 that they cannot fpread and extend fo much 

 as in open and porous ground; and by this 

 means many of the plants have not fufficient 

 nourishment; many of them are thereby 

 {tinted, and not a few are ftarved, and die ; 

 as is plainly feen in all crops of wheat fown 

 broad-caft, with a large proportion of feed. 



Thefe inconveniencies are prevented by the 

 New Hufbandry. The land -is made very 

 clean from weette : at firft, by planting (ingle 



rows 



