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porous by the hoeings, and is ahforbed im- 

 mediately by the roots, may be doubtful; but 

 certain it is, that the earth, by the hoeing and 

 expofure, is greatly enriched, to fuch a de- 

 gree, as to give fufficient nourifhment to the 

 wheat ; for the repeated annual crops of it ! 

 have no other fupply of nourilhment. 



Thick fown wheat, that has the benefit of 

 good tillage and manure, is apt to run too 

 much to draw, and though it grows high,, 

 has frequently but fmall ears. Whereas 

 wheat well hoed does not grow fo tall, but 

 tillers or branches much, from five to ten 

 or fifteen Items riling from one grain, and 

 from fome to a greater number ; the ears are 

 alfo almoft' twice the length of fown wheat, 



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and the gram much larger. The advantage! 

 of the New Hufbandry over the old, does nut 

 however confift in the largenefs of the crops 

 of vt heat (for they are frequently not greater 

 nor fo great as the fown crops), but in the 

 expence ; the expence of a hoed-crop being 

 commonly no more than about an eighth, and 

 iomitimes no more than a tenth pure of the 

 expence of a fown crop, upon the fame 

 land. 



I have been particular in defcribing the 

 culture of wheat in the New Hufbandry; not 

 only becaufc it is a valuable one to the 

 farmer, but becaule it requires more fkill to 

 cultivate it well, than any other crop of corn. 

 Mr. Tull took great paius to bring it to 



perfection. 





