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would continue fo by the ploughing only ; 

 but this is attended with an inconveniency to 

 the wheat, which is fo much forced by the 

 dung, that it grows too luxuariant in its in- 

 fancy, and occafions it to be rank, and apt to 

 lodge ; but having no new fupply of nourilh- 

 ment, it is then apt to be blighted, and pro- 

 duce a fmall crop of thin blighted corn. 

 Wheat is only a fmall grafly plant for five 

 months, or more, after it is fown; in all which 

 time the earth is fubfiding, and the virtue of 

 the dung abating : fo that afterwards, as the 

 plants grow large, produce ears, and the 

 corn advances to maturity, it ftands in need of 

 more nourifhment than it did at firft, but is 

 in fact fupplied with lefs ; the confequence of 

 which is, that many of the plants die for 

 . want of proper nourimment, and the reft are 

 dwarfed or ftinted : for it may be feen, while 

 it is in bloflbm, that the ears of Lammas 

 wheat are formed by nature to produce each 

 fixty, ieventy, or more grains ; yet the largeft 

 ears of broad-caft Lammas wheat do not 

 ufually produce more than forty grains of 

 wheat, and, at an average, not half that 

 number; as has been found, by examining a 

 quantity of wheat in the ear before it was 

 thrafhed. 



The New Hufbandry for wheat differs from 

 the Old in feveral refpe&s : Firft, with re- 

 fpe& to dung, of which none is ufed in the 

 New Ju{bandry for that crop, but the earth 



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