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" I fometimes allow only fix pecks of 

 44 feed-wheat to an acre : this is when I fow 

 ' over it, in the fpring of the year, eighteen 

 " bufliels of broad-clover-feed ; which I har- 

 " row in with a pair of very light harrows, 

 " and it does not in the leaft damage my 

 44 wheat -plants. I leave the clover only two 

 " years on the land : for the fecond year after 

 44 I have mown the firft crop for hay, I fuffer 

 44 the fecond to grow very rank (having 

 44 given my land a flight dreffing from my 

 44 compoft dung - hill the preceding year) 

 44 which I plough in, and over it fow wheat, 

 " to be harrowed in at once ploughing. 



44 Thefe crops of wheat are fmaller in 

 44 quantity than any others I get; but the 

 * 4 grain is finer, plumper, brighter, and hea^ 

 4< vier, generally felling for more at market, 

 44 as being always very clean, and clear from 

 44 feeds of weeds. 



" In my method of farming, fome parti- 

 44 culars are to bef noted. In the firft place, 

 46 as my crops fucceeded one the other very 

 " quick, I am under a neceflity of having all 

 44 my ftubble extirpated, before I give the 

 44 land the firft ploughing after the crop is off. 

 44 If it is a wheat or, bean ftubble, I generally 

 44 have it all pulled up by hand by women 

 * 4 and children; barley and oat-ftubbies I 

 44 have torn up by a pair of loaded drags, and 

 44 afterwards gathered into heaps, and carted 

 44 to the compoft heap. This I do to prevent 



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