268 APPENDIX. 



The horfe-hoeing is neceflary at this time for 

 another reafon, viz. that, in iome years and in 

 fome climates, the weather may become rough 

 and boifterous after Midfummer, and when the 

 wheat-ears become heavy ; for then the draws 

 bend, and are fometimes fo difordered, that 

 the wheat cannot then be fafely horfe-hoed, 

 and its mining of a hoeing then will be an 

 injury to the crop and to the land ; but this 

 will not be fo injurious, if it has been well 

 hoed at the time of its beginning to blonom. 

 If the earth is ploughed from the rows at 

 bloffoming, the hoe-plough mould go clofe to 

 the rows, as clofe as at the fecond hoeing : 

 this may feem too near, and fo Mr. Tull him- 

 felf thought at firft ; bur, upon further ex- 

 perience, he found that his wheat throve the 

 better for bringing the hoe-plough clofe to the 

 wheat at every hoeing from the rows. The 

 third hoeing, given when the wheat begins 

 to blow, will be of great fervice, in caufing 

 the ears to produce a greater number of grains. 

 '. And if the wheat (lands fair, the next hoe- 

 ing after the wheat has done bloflbming will 

 allo be very ferviceable, to nourifh the wheat 







well then, and caufing the grain to be large, 

 plump, and full of flour. 



It was before obferved, that Mr. Tull's lateft 

 practice was, to give his wheat four horfe-hoe- 

 ings : the firft was before winter from the 

 wheat ; the fecond was in the fpring alfo from 



the wheat, only deeper, and nearer to it ; the 



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