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I. In common broad-caft lowing, the land 

 is feldom made fo clean from weeds as it 

 ought; nor can a broad-caft crop be kept fo 

 clean as a hoed one ; for which reafon, the 

 land fown broad- caSt is much more exhaufted 

 of the vegetable food : weeds, being natives of 

 the foil, grow vigorously, and rob the corn 

 qfjtnuch nourishment, especially Such of them 

 as run to feed ; which the weeds in hoed crops 

 are not fuffered to do, nor ever to grow large, 

 much lefs run to feed, where the hoeings and 

 weedings in the New Husbandry are performed 

 as they ought. 



2. The land Sown broad-caSl is alfo ex- 

 haufted by four or five times the number of 

 wlieat plants more than the drilled ; upon 

 one is fown ten or twelve pecks of feed, and 

 on the other is drilled three peck s; or, on 

 good land Sown early, but two pecks : thefe 

 iupernumerary wheat plants, and many weeds, 

 greatly impoverish the land, in the common 

 HuSbandry. The land, it is true, is prepared 

 by fallowing and manure ; but, this being 

 done before the feed is fown, much of the 

 effect of them is fpent upon the wheat, while 

 the plants are young and fmall ; but they 

 have no freSh Supply of nourishment when 

 they grow large and want it moSt. This is 

 an unfavourable circumftance to lown wheat, 

 but the drilled is under a quite different ma- 

 nagement: for, 



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