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* from London, ftands equally well with the 

 " grey cone ; which has determined me to 

 " fow it moftly for the enfuing crop. 



" My drilled wheat is generally, by the time 

 " it gets into bloflbm, To laid over, though not 

 " broke, that I can neither horfe-hoe, hand- 

 hoe, or hand -weed. So that a fecond crop 

 " of weeds never fails to fpring up time enough 

 " to ripen their feed, before the crop is cut : 

 ** and this, with me, is the great and invinci- 

 " ble objection to a fucceflion of wheat crops 

 ** in this way ; at lead in my foil, and this 

 " climate. What I propofe, to remedy this, 

 " is, to take a crop of horfe-hoed turnips, 

 " next a horfe-hoed crop of beans ; next 

 " two or three crops of horfe-hoed wheat; 

 " and then return to the turnips. In this 

 " way, I am fure to extirpate the weeds, 

 * during the turnip and bean crops, and have 

 " reafon to expect my wheat (hall be a full 

 ** crop, after thefe meliorating ones. 



" If the drilled wheat flood fair, it would 

 " be cut down at one half the expence of 

 * broad-caft, at lead : for, even when laid 

 " over, and very much difbrdered, I do it for 

 " two-thirds of the expence of the other. 



" Were it not for the parts that fail in my 

 " fields, my horfe-hoed crops would exceed 

 " four quarters. Laft year, on half an acre 

 * Scots^ 1 had twenty-two Winchefltrs [thirty- 

 ' five bufhels per Englijb acre], but this was 

 * all equally good." 



