NEW HUSBANDRY EXEMPLIFIED. 225 



*' feet : for wheat, barley, and potatoes, two 

 44 feet and a haJf ; lucerne and carrots, two feet. 

 " I likevvife prefer (ingle rows to double, or 

 " treble, efpecially until the land is got very 

 44 clean and in good order : for, when planted 

 44 in fingle rows, the horie-hoe may be worked 

 44 near the rows, and the weeds difplaced to 

 44 the bottom; but, if planted in double rows, 

 44 the fpace between being narrow, the weeds 

 " cannot be difplaced without the ufe of the 

 44 hand-hoe, and then not deep enough to de- 

 4 ftroy them ; and fo much of the ground lies 

 " uncultivated. Double rows, I believe, afford 

 4C larger crops than fingle, in beans, wheat, 

 44 and barley ; and, when your land is in good 

 44 tilth and very clean, double rows may be 

 44 pra&ifed to advantage ; but, if ufed before, I 

 4< am perfuaded your land will never be clean. 



' I have obfervcd before, that the general 

 44 opinion is, that the expence of inftruments 

 44 neceflary for this practice is more confider- 

 44 able than it really is ; which probably has 

 44 in fome meafure prevented many from 

 44 making fome trials of its fuccefs. I will 

 44 therefore enumerate and defcribe all fuch 

 44 as I have found neceflary for this work. 



44 Every farmer muft be provided with 

 44 ploughs, harrows, drags, and a roller, for 

 44 cultivating his land according to the old 

 44 method : therefore thefe are not to be con- 

 44 iidered as an extra expence, occafioned by 

 44 the new practice. All the inftruments that 



" arc 



