76 THE PRACTICE OF THE 



" bout, with the double mould board, at half 

 " a bout, which was for fome time my 

 " practice : but now find it more profitable, 

 " firft to return the bout by another bout 

 ' of the fingle hoe, which expofes a large 

 * new furfacej and then, when the weeds 

 " are up, clean up with the double mould 

 " board. But at the fecond hoeing from the 

 * rows, which is after the grain is got into 

 " ear, I only take two fmall furrows, viz. one 

 * 6 from each fide ; thefe I return at once, with 

 c the double mould board. 



" I have ufed the white lammas wheat, the 

 " Kenttjh red ; the Zealand, from Holland \ the 

 *' white and grey cone 5 and this year, a fmall 

 " quantity of Smyrna wheat, Spica multiplici. 

 " Yet I find none of them can refifl the vio- 

 " lent ftorms of wind and rain of our climate. 

 " Both the cones ftand the beft ; but our 

 " millers have not art enough to grind them ; 

 *' on which account our bakers are my to 

 " buy. I have moftly fown for the horfe- 

 " hoe, the grey cone. A part of my laft 

 *' year's crop went to the IJle of Man, to Ram- 

 "fay, and was fo large a grain, that our 

 " bakers objected to it on that account. 



*' My crop this year confifts of the grey 

 " cone, the red Kentifh, and the white lam- 

 *' mas, fome of each in the fame field, on 

 *' purpofe to fee which flood beft ; and now 

 ' find, the red Kentifh has fufFered moft ; 

 < 6 and that the white lammas, of a kind I had 



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