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Another confiderable advantage is, the clean- 

 nefs of the crops from weeds : a horfe-hoed 

 crop of wheat, if well cultivated, has fcarce 

 any weeds in it at harveft, and is fit to be 

 carried home almoft as foon as it is reaped ; 

 but fown wheat, growing upon land much 

 dunged, is fo full of weeds at harveft, that it 

 cannot be carried home and houfed or flacked 

 iafely till the weeds are withered : the wheat 

 is all that time expofed to the weather and 

 other accidents, and does frequently receive 

 much damage by that delay. Barley and oats 

 fuffer (till more, particularly barley, by the 

 clover ufually fown with it being often da- 

 maged by the clover ; and in catching feafons, 

 the crop is fbmetimes totally loft, and the 

 young clover injured, and this notwithftand- 

 ing a great expence the farmer is put to, in 

 endeavouring to fave this crop : fo that, in 

 wet or very catching feafons, it would be 

 more for his intereft to mow his barley when 

 in ear, which together with the clover would 

 make excellent fodder for his cattle ; and by 

 this means his extraordinary expence would 

 be faved, and his young clover would come 

 forward again apace. 



When thefe and other oircumftances are 

 duly confidered, every experienced huiband- 

 man will be fenfible, that extending the New 

 Ilufbandry will be very advantageous to the 

 farmers who praftife it, and immenfely fo to 

 ithe public : for it evidently appeers by the 



examples 



