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horfe-hoed it. Alfo it appears, that he had 

 good crops of wheat, as appears from the ac- 

 count of his crops given above, much fuperior 

 to Sir Digby's wheat crops, though his was 

 deep land. Mr. Toll alfo horie-hoed his 

 wheat ' four times, and deep ; whereas Sir 

 Digby's was horle-hoed only three times. 

 He lays indeed (as before-mentioned), <* nor 

 " are more than four hoeings commonly re- 

 " quired; fothat, if we reckon four millings 

 * for ploughing the ground once over, or 

 " forming frefh ridges, four fhillings more 

 " for horfe-hoeing, two millings and fix- 

 * 4 pence for hand-hoeing, two (hillings for 

 " weeding, and fix-pence for drilling; thir-r 

 " teen millings is the whole expence of ma-' 

 *' naging an acre in the New method." But 

 though four horfe-hoeings are charged here, 

 as generally neceffary for a crop of wheat, yet 

 this land was horle-hoed but three times (for 

 what realon does not appear), and thefe 

 horfe-hoeings were performed with only one 

 horfe ; which, as the land was defcp, might 

 have been deeper ploughed with two horfes ; 

 this would have kept the land rnoifl; to a good 

 tlepth, would have enriched it more, and 

 caufed it to produce much greater crops. 



Having given Ib full an account of this 

 gentleman's barley and wheat crops, 1 mall be 

 the fhbrter with rtfpecl: to the ether horfe- 

 hoed crops. The ninth crop upon the fcven 

 acres was in the year 1/67, fix acres lentils, 



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