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If the wheat is drilled upon the level, in 

 rows, at two feet diftance, it may be hoed 

 with a fmall plough, and will produce better 

 crops in that way, than by hand-hoeing ; and 

 if, at the lad hoeing, the plants are earthed 

 up by the hoe, they will the better dand up- 

 right againd the dorms of wind and rain. 

 Large crops may be obtained in this method; 

 but there is no other, befides the horfe- 

 hoeing of wheat upon ridges, by which con- 

 ftant annual crops are obtained lb cheap, and 

 without manure or fallow. 



Mod farmers will think that more than 

 two rows of wheat may be planted to ad- 

 vantage upon a ridge, and the author of this 

 Hufbandry was at fird of that opinion : for 

 which reafon he then drilled four rows, and 

 for fome years three rows, upon each ridge, at 

 leven inches didance : but, when three only 

 are drilled, the roots do fo entangle and in- 

 terfere with each other, that the crop of the 

 two outfide rows are leflened, and the middle 

 row fo much dinted, that it does not grow 

 near fo tall, nor produce half the crop of 

 cither of the two outfide rows, occafioned 

 by the obdru&ion of its roots, and that the 

 {even-inch partitions cannot be hand-hoed fo 

 \vcll and deep, as the ten-inch partition be- 

 tween the double rows ; and therefore no 

 more than two rows (hould be drilled upon a 

 ridge. It would indeed be better to drill only 

 one row upon a ridge, and then the wheat 

 T 4 might 



