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IV. Sowing Soot. Near towns foot is ufed 

 as a top-drcffing tor wheat, ia February or 

 March. 



'The time of fovAng is confidered as very ma- 

 terial. If it be fown early, andthe froft catch 

 . it, its ftretigth is theFcby lowered : if late, and 

 Ro rain falls ta v/afk it in, it is thought to be 

 rather injurious than beneficial to the crop of 

 wheat. And it is not, in any cafe, found of 

 much, if any, fcrvicc to the fucceeding crop of 

 barley, 



*The method of /(Hjohrg it is extremely fi-mple-, 

 and, in the only inilance I faw the fowing of 

 foot pradlifcd, her^, was very complete. 



A favo-urable opportunity being embraced,, 

 <\'hen the wind blew gently and in the direc- 

 tion, o? nearly in the fame diredion, as the 

 lands or ridges lie, — the fame waggon which 

 brought it from Norwich, and which, until 

 the opportunity ofFersd, had ftood fafe under 

 cover, was dravvn^ in a furrow, againft th-c 

 wind ; while a man, {landing on the outlide of 

 tht waggon, fpread the foot, with a fhovel, 

 feveral yards wide, on either fide of him ; th« 

 height of his fituation at once enabling him 

 to fpread it wide, and cten. As he reached 



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