."-THE PRACTICE OF THE 



" had any manure, except that the turnips 

 * had been eaten off by the fheep. On the 

 26th of April, 1753, half an acre was 

 ' fowu by hand in the random way, and 

 ** took five pecks of feed. Half an acre was 

 " drilled in equally diftant rows, one foot 

 * afunder, and took three pecks. Two acres 

 ' were drilled in ridges or beds, five feet 

 * broad, in double rows, eleven inches afun- 

 * der, and four feet one inch interval, to be 

 " horfe-hoed, and they took fix pecks. Two 

 " other acres were drilled, on five feet ridges, 

 4C in triple rows, feven inches afunder, and 

 14 took four pecks. 



** N.B. I feared, at the time of fowing 

 ' thefe laft two acres, that the feed had been 

 ** too fparingly difpenfed : but the plants 



branched fo much afterwards, that the rows 



feemed tolerably compleat. 



" The above five acres had but one plough- 

 * c ing: viz. juft before feed-time, after the 

 4C harveft, ^1762. One the goth of May, 

 " the firft horfe-hoeing was performed on the 

 ** four acres fowed in ridges, with M. Duha- 

 * mell's one-wheeled plough. But, on ac- 

 * count of the rows being drilled unevenly, 

 * this could not be done very regularly in 

 " fome places, the plough coming fo near 

 * the rows as to tear out fome plants, and co- 

 **? ver others with mould; and in others 

 " om g at to great a diftance from the corn. 

 " To remedy this in fome meafure, the rows 



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