NEW HUSBANDRY EXEMPLIFIED. 95 



" I found fixty acres of fallow, ready for 

 " (owing with wheat: thefe, as the land 

 " was rank, I fowed with the winter tare ; 

 " which I knew by experience would choak 

 " the weeds, and abate the ranknefs of the 

 " foil. In fome parts, where the foil was 

 " not fo rank, I ploughed-in the tares, in or- 

 " der to fow wheat over them. In other 

 " parts, I fuffered the tare to (land for a crop ; 

 " which however was not confiderable, they 

 " ran fo much to ftraw or haulm. 



" When the tares were off, I got the land 

 ** inftantly in order, and fowed the whole 

 " with wheat, of which I had a better and 

 " cleaner crop, than had been known upon 

 * the land for upwards of feven years before ; 

 " this all my neighbours acknowleged. How- 

 " ever, it was neither clean enough, nor 



confiderable enough, to fatisfy me. Some 

 " of ydiir readers may perhaps wonder, what 

 " I did with my tares, as but few are fold at 

 " the country markets : but I muft inform 

 " them, that I live within ten miles of a 

 " fea-port town, whither I fent them at va- 

 " rious times, in order to their being carried 

 " by fea to London. 



I am to obferve to you, that I continued 

 " the agreement, of giving the fquire draw 

 44 for his dung : but I made ufe of it very 

 " different from my predeceflbr. 



" I make it a rule, never to manure for 

 " wheat, or fow wheat oil a fallow. I do 



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