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44 of faid bufhels, fince I firft began ; and the 

 44 total expence, harveft-home, is about a 

 44 guinea, feed included. But the return 

 44 would confiderably exceed this, were it not 

 44 for fome parts in every field, that have 

 44 every year quite failed : in fome occafioned 

 " by a vein of fandy, gravelly foil, that runs 

 "'acrofs two of my fields ; and in all others, 

 44 from the old ridges being very high raifed 

 44 by the former farmers, and at the fame 

 44 time very broad and crooked, which obliged 

 44 me to level the whole ; the confequence of 

 44 which is, that the tops of the old ridges 

 44 continue barren for feveral years, to my 

 44 great lofs. I was for fome time in hopes, 

 44 that frequent cultivation and expofure to 

 44 the air would in time remedy this defect : 

 44 but, finding little alteration in thefe parts, 

 44 I am now applying proper dreflings, fuited 

 44 to the different foils, which I have already 

 " found will anfwer the purpofe, and make a 

 44 very fenfible difference in my profits. 



44 When the crop is off, the ridges are 

 " ploughed up, and formed anew, then 

 44 fmoothed by the drill-harrows, and drilled 

 44 with the drill-plough. When the wheat 

 44 has got three or four leaves, I horfe-hoe 

 44 from the rows, agreeable to Mr. Tull. In 

 4 the fpring, I always deepen the fame fur- 

 44 rows, made before winter ; after which it 

 44 lies till the wheat begins to fpindle, when 

 44 I horfe-hoe back the earth, fo as to earth up 



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