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plough might be introduced oftener, as there 

 would be more room in the intervals : but Mr, 

 Tull's ridges were narrower than five feet, as 

 were thofe of other cultivators who have fuc- 

 ceeded in this culture. " It has, fays he, 

 *' been after the culture of the intervals was 

 ' finifhed [after June, as above] that they 

 *' have (hot up, and formed their feed ; and 

 f* which I conceive to be produ&ive of them 

 *' in the fucceeding year," and this may be in 

 (bine meafure prevented as before mentioned. 



4. That, in ploughing thefe five-feet ridges 

 after harveft for the fucceeding crop, the 

 ftubble mixed with the mould of the in- 

 tervals ; and he fays he found by infpection 

 that this was the cauie of the third crop being 

 fo finall. The ftubble interfered with the 

 coulters of the drill plough in its paffage, and 

 cauled the ground to remain hollow about the 

 feed in many places ; and the winter's rain, 

 lodging in thefe hollows, perimed the plants; 

 whence, fays he, a g-eat diminution of our 

 (third) crop. Six-feet ridges may remove this 

 objection alfo; becaufe in ploughing the ground 

 for a fucceeding crop, the ftubble of the pre- 

 ceding one will not be fo apt to approach the 

 middle of the new-made ridges, as when ths 

 culture is carried on with narrower ridges. 

 Removing the ftubble would be a troublefome 

 and expenfive buiinefs, to clear a large quan- 

 tity of land, belides robbing the ground of fo 



much manure as the -Hubble would make. 

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