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Land is not impoverifhed by a crop, if that 

 crop is well horfe-hoed, as we have (hewn of 

 wheat crops; and as wheat crops, thus culti- 

 vated, do not require manure, the faimer may 

 fpare fome manure for a winter crop. As 

 fuppofc his land, in the prefent cafe, is itrong, 

 it may be ploughed as foon as the wheat is 

 carried off, laid up into five-feet ridges, and 

 immediately planted with a double row of 

 cole-feed plants upon each ridge, the rows a 

 foot afunder, the land being firft well drefied 

 with dung or compoft. The plants being 

 thus difpoled, there will be a fpace or interval 

 between the double rows, of four feet wide, 

 which is a proper diftance to give room for 

 the hoe-plough; and thefe cole-feed plants, 

 well horie-hoed and hand-hoed in the par- 

 tition between the rows, will come forward 

 ;i]?ace, and produce a considerable quantity of 

 good feeding for large cattle and (beep to the 

 beginning of February, about which time 

 the Lnd mould be cleared of all the cols-leed 

 plam?, and immediately planted, five feet 

 each ridge, with a double row of beans, to be 

 horfe-hoed. Once ploughing of the rida.es is a 

 fufficient preparation for the beans : for it is an 

 advantage peculiar to the New Hufbandry, that 

 one crop may immediately fucceed another, 

 without further preparation or expence than 

 ploughing once for a new crop. 1 have pro- 

 poied to plant cole-feed, as Auguft is a proper 

 tiiiie to tranfphnt them for a crop ; a id they 



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