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inconveniences which he found mi^ht poflibly 

 be avoided. He then dates his objections to 

 drilling on five-feet ridges; and aifigns t .eie 

 as the reaions why he did not fucceed. 



** His fird objection is, that upon poor 

 " cold ground the wheat is too late in ripen- 

 " ing, efpecialiy in fb moid a climate as Ire- 

 " land, and where there is io little fun " 

 This objection relates to drilled wheat, which, 

 by the nourifhment it receives from the hoe- 

 plough, is fomewhat longer in ripening than 

 wheat fown broad-cad ; but the difference is 

 not fo great as wholly to exclude drilling there, 

 as is intimated in this objection : for, as men- 

 tioned above, Mr. B^ker drilled one acre; and 

 contiguous to it he lowed two half-acres 

 broad-cad, all of them were iown the lame 

 day, viz. the ^th of October. Thefe two 

 half-acres were reaped the 2^d of Augud; 

 and the drilled acre was reaped the a8th of 

 Auguft, which was only five days later: this 

 was fo fmall a difference as ought not to ex- 

 clude the hoeing culture of wheat, if other- 

 wife the mod profitable. Befides, it is to be 

 obferved, that this wheat was not fo\vn till 

 the 5th of October; which, had it been (own 

 earlier, would have been earlier ripe: lo that 

 this is 'no valid objection againd drilling of 

 wheat in Ireland, even upon fo cold laud as 

 this was. 



2. Mr. Baker objects next, * that after 

 ** taking four oJr five crops in this way, the 



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