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fphere, as do alfo the miffing fands in Nor- 

 folk and other places : for no feed or plant 

 will vegetate in thefe fands, nor in chalk, and 

 fome other calcareous earths, not even in 

 thofe hills of chalk that have for ages lain 

 expofed to the atmofphere, and though the 

 chalk confifts of exceeding fine parts. 



The co'mmon method of preparing land for 

 wheat is by fallowing and drefling it with 

 dung or other manure, and, as before ob- 

 ferved, after the feed is fovvn and harrowed 

 in, nothing more is ufually done to it till har- 

 veft, unleis the land be foul ; and then the 

 wheat is weeded in the fummer. The quan- 

 tity of feed fown is from two and a half to 

 about three bufhels ; the crop is uncertain ; 

 fome years from thirty to forty bufhels per 

 acre, upon good land ; and in others, not 

 above half that quantity. 



Another method of cultivating wheat was 

 introduced by Mr. Tull; who, going abroad 

 on account of his health, was fome years in 

 Italy and the fouth of France. He was a cu- 

 rious obferver of their agriculture, particularly 

 of the low vineyards in Languedoc. They 

 plant their vines there in ftraight lines, about 

 four feet diftant, and frequently plough be- 

 tween them ; which deltroys the weeds, and 

 keeps the land in tilth. With this culture 

 the vines produced good crops annually, unlefs 

 the tillage happened to be omitted ; for then 

 the vines languifhed, and produced but little 



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