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TulFs drill-plough made with wooden feed- 

 boxes, which performed well, and coft fifty 

 fhillings. But if he has not a drill- plough at 

 firft, he may mark two parallel channels upon 

 the top of each ridge very ftraight, and upon 

 the middle of each ridge, and ten inches dif- 

 tant. The drill-plough makes the channels, 

 drills the feed (about three pecks to an acre), 

 and covers it about two inches deep, all at one 

 operation ; but, if there is no drill plough, the 

 feed may be fprained thin into the channels 

 by hand, and covered with a rake or light 

 fhort-toothed harrow, about the fame depth, 

 two inches; and when the wheat comes up, 

 and probably will be too thick, the plants 

 ihould be thinned to about an inch diftance, 

 with a very narrow (harp hand-hoe ; but it is 

 much the bed way to do this by hand, and as 

 regularly as can be done. 



It is ufual to brine and lime fed-wheat, to 

 prevent the crop being fmutty, which fome 

 years it is very apt to be, and to damage the 

 crop. If the feed is very clean, found, and 

 from a good change, it will not produce a 

 fmutty crop : but brining is the lureft way to 

 prevent it. Full plump wheat is the moft apt 

 to produce a fmutty crop: for which realbn, 

 farmers prefer thin Imall-bodied wheat for feed, 

 particularly the burn-beat wheat. The fmall 

 feed, if found, produces as full-bodied wheat 

 as any : for the crop is not large-grained 

 wheat from the fize of the feed, but from the 

 goodnefs of the land, and the tillage. 



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