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pointed ; and he thought the white and grey 

 cone (the forts he commonly cultivated with 

 the horfe-hoe) were not large enough to be 

 drilled upon ridges in (ingle rows ; and, I be- 

 lieve, has not been tried in this manner ; but 

 there is another method, that has been tried 

 with fucceis, which the farmer may pradtife 

 with fafety, till he is well acquainted with 

 horfe-hoeing double rows upon ridges. This 

 is, to drill his wheat in lingle equidiftant 

 rows, of two feet or thirty inches afunder, 

 with about two pecks of feed per acre, if fown 

 early. The thirty-inch fpaces mould oe cul- 

 tivated with a fmall fwing-plough, (in the 

 manner the ridges are hoed) the firft hoeing 

 before winter, taking care that the plants of 

 young wheat are not covered with the mould 

 falling upon them. In this way, the wheat 

 mould not be hoed on both fides of the rows 

 at once, for that would leave them too much 

 expofed j as the plough mould go within two 

 or three inches of the wheat : but the rows 

 fhould be hoed alternately, one of the fpaces 

 in autumn, and the next to it in the fpring ; 

 and in this manner during the growth of the 

 wheat. If the land is fo itrong, that it would 

 get ftale and hard before the fpring-hoeing, 

 the wheat may be hoed alternately in au- 

 tumn, on both (ides, which is done by re- 

 turning the earth hoed from one fide, imme- 

 diately, or foon after it was hoed fiomrhe 

 wheat; and then hoe the other iide, which 



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