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but are by no means proper to be fubftituted 

 for the hoe plough ; and here appears the 

 error of Mr. Baker's culture. His winter or 

 firft horfe- hoeing, he takes notice, was per- 

 formed the 20th of November with the hoe- 

 plough, which turned the earth from the 

 rows of wheat. The fecond horfe hoeing with 

 the hoe- plough was not performed till the 

 3oth day of March, and then the earth was 

 turned back again towards the rows of wheat. 

 The third h'orie-hoeing with the plough was 

 not performed till the iyth of June, and then 

 the earth was not again ploughed away from 

 the rows, as the author of this hufbandry di- 

 redls, and that the plough fhould go clofe to 

 the wheat ; but, on the contrary, fome looib 

 earth was thrown up from the intervals, the 

 1 7th of June, up to the ridges; fo that inftead 

 of four hoeings with the plough, two of them 

 clofe to the wheat, here was only one hoeing 

 performed in that manner the 2oth of No- 

 vember ; and after the earth was turned to 

 the wheat by the hoe-plough, it was no more 

 ploughed and turned from the wheat after- 

 wards, as fhould have been done ; and what 

 other tillage was given in the intervals was 

 wholly performed by the cultivators, not pro- 

 per to be iubihiuted for the plough. 



Indeed the land here was properly horfe-' 

 hoed only twice, inftead of four horfe^hoeings 

 that ought at the lead to have beei> given it. 

 Mr. Tull at firft gave his wheat fix horie- 



hoeings, 



