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expence - f the crop being thus freed from fmut, 

 will fell at a full price, being as fit to make 

 bread as any other, only not fo proper for 

 feed to be (own without being warned in brine, 

 as fome of the fmutty powder may have been 

 blown upon the found corn before the fmutty 

 ears were cut off. 



There is a great advantage in keeping all 

 crops clean from weeds, and particularly hoed 

 wheat crops ; for horfe-hoed wheat, being fup- 

 plied with abundance of nourifhment till it is 

 fully ripened, is ufually feveral days later in 

 ripening than fown wheat, for which reafon 

 it is advifeable to drill wheat early, as fuppofc 

 in the beginning or by the middle of September, 

 for by that means it will be the fooner ripe. 

 Some feafbns are early, and fome fo late, that 

 it may not be proper to drill fo early as the 

 beginning of September ; but when the weather 

 is Tuitable and the land in order, it is molt 

 advifeable, to drill early ; the early fown has 

 another advantage befides its ripening early, it 

 tillers or branches before fpring ; and its roots 

 being thus multiplied, it is the better able to 

 refift the cold and froft in winter. 



Many farmers, however, do not choofetofow 

 early, becaufe they fay the wheat grows win- 

 ter-proud, that is, fhoots up before winter fo 

 luxuriantly, that the plants are liable to be 

 killed by the froft ; but though the blades are 

 iometimes killed, yet the roots furvive (if the 

 land is dry .and healthy), and they produce 

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