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The foregoing account of the hoeing 

 culture of wheat, being particular, may to. 

 fome appear tedious ; but to thofe who in- 

 tend to practife the New Hufbandry, will, . 

 it is prefumed, be acceptable; as not only the 

 beft method, but the reafons alfo, in moft 

 cafes, are here afligned for the rules laid down ; 

 which was the more neceffary for a learner, 

 as moft of the modern accounts tend more 

 to perplex, than inform, a beginner. Dril- 

 ling wheat in equally-diftant rows, and 

 hand-hoeing it, is a method that farmers 

 like much better than horfe-hoeing it, and, 

 though more advantageous than broad-caft 

 fowing, is not by much fo profitable as horfe- 

 hoeing. The hand-hoeing does not improve 

 the land fo much ; and the wheat-crops can- 

 not be repeated every year in fucceffion, upon 

 the fame land, even with the affiftanos of 

 manure. The land is, however, improved 

 by hand-hoeing; and there is a confiderablc 

 laving in ieed, for a bufhel of wheat is the 

 proper quantity to drill upon the level in 

 equidiftant rows, and one foot diftant. This 

 leaves room for the hand-hoe between the 

 rows; which is performed in the fpring, and 

 the weeds cut down, before the wheat fpindles, 

 for then the hoe is (hut out. But as the hoe. 

 ing both improves the land, and deftroys the 

 weeds, twice hoeing would improve it more 

 than once, or deep hoeing, and a fcuffling, 

 to which the only objection is the expence. 



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