4 THE PRACTICE OF THE 



two inches deep, with about three pecks of 

 feed to the acre. This is the largeft quantity 

 ufually drilled ; and the fmalleit quantity 

 about two pecks to an acre, when (own early 

 and in very good land. In this method land 

 is drilled with wheat to be horfe-hoed, the 

 partitions to be hand-hoed, and the rows to 

 be hand weeded ; that the land may be kept 

 clean, and no weeds fuffered to run to feed, 

 or to grow large, which mould be carefully 

 prevented. The land thus cultivated will be 

 kept clean ; nor can i: grow hard and ftale, 

 as- in the Old Hufbandry ; for it is to be re- 

 peatedly hoed in the intervals with the hoe- 

 plough, and the partition between the double 

 rows, which are ten inches alunder, are hoed 

 and kept clean with the hand-hoe ; by thefe 

 operations, the land is kept loofe and open, 

 and in an high (rate of pulverization, all the 

 time the crop is growing ; which fo encou- 

 rages the plants to fpread their roots, to form 

 new ones, and furnimes them with fuch abun- 

 dant nourifhment, that they tiller or branch 

 greatly; produce larger ears and fuller grain 

 than one commonly produced from wheat 

 fown broad caft with three times the quantity 

 of feed ; and, what is of great value, the 

 hoed wheat crops, if the hoeing is well per- 

 formed, require no dung or other manure ; 

 which is not only a faving of the principal 

 expence of broad-cart wheat, but alfo enables 



the owner to conquer the weeds, as none are 

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brought 



