238 THE PRACTICE OF THE 



" tillage, which falls in fucceflively accord - 

 " ing to the exigency and want of the plant 

 " in its feveral degrees of growth ; and keeps 

 ' the land in a proper ftate. Why mould it 

 " not have the fame effect upon wheat, and 

 ** every other plant, that is fufceptible of the 

 " like culture?" 



Here it is to be obferved, that maize or In- 

 dian corn is very generally cultivated in 

 North America, and particularly in New- 

 England, where it is efteemed to be a great 

 impoverimer of land ; yet we lee, that the 

 Hoeing Husbandry not only improves the 

 crop, but the land alfo, to fuch a degree, that 

 it is fo far from being impoverifhed by this 

 corn, as in their Common Hufbandry, that 

 it is enriched fo much by the hoeing, as to 

 produce a better crop of maize, and likewife 

 a better fubfequent crop of oats or flax. This 

 is the more extraordinary, as the hoeing was 

 fo mallow, and but once repeated; and 

 Ihews, that fucceffive crops, even of this ex- 

 haufting plant, may be obtained in this Huf- 

 bandry ; as we have fhewn, that fucceffive 

 crops of wheat have been obtained in Britain 

 for a long courfe of years, though found im- 

 practicable in the Common Hufbandry. It is 

 likewife juftly obferved here by the Doctor, 

 that this culture may be applied with fuccefs 

 to other plants : for, " why," fays he, " (hould 

 " it not have the fame effect upon wheat, and 

 every other plant, that is fufceptible of the 



" like 



