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this comport, which I immediately plough 

 * 4 in. I then fow it with fome crop that re 

 *' quires hoeing, fuch as horie-beans, broad- 

 44 beans, or white or grey peafe. During the 

 4< whole fummer, I take care to keep thefe 

 4{ crops very clean, by hoeing, efpecially if 

 " the feafon is rainy ; and I am particularly 

 4< cautious in preventing any of the weeds 

 " from perfecting the feeds. 



" When my hoeing-crop, which generally 

 44 more than pays me all my expences, is off 

 44 the land, 1 immediately get it into as fine 

 4< tilth as I poflibly can, by repeated plough- 

 ings ; and then fow it, either with wheat 

 44 or barley, whichever is likely to pay me 

 44 beft : for, little as fome of your readers may 

 ** think of it, barley, when it is fown on 

 4< good land, well prepared, is very frequently 

 44 as profitable as a crop of wheat. 



44 By thus lowing my wheat, after a hoe- 

 44 ing crop with dung, I have always a good 

 44 return of clean corn, often five quarters on 

 44 an acre; and my land will ftill be in heart 

 *' enough, to give me a reafonable crop of 

 " oats; after which, without any fallow, 

 44 comes my hoeing crop, &c. 



44 When I fow barley after the hoeing 

 " crop, I fuffer wheat to follow it; and then it 

 44 is that, if 1 find it necelTary, I give the 

 44 wheat in the fpring a top-dreffing of foot, 

 4 mixed with pigeciis dung. 



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