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rlably the fceond yearns lay ; but, as has been al- 

 ready intimated, the regular fuccefTion is in a 

 greater or fmaller degree broken into by 

 farniers in general ; and it fometimes happens 

 that wheat is fown on the frjl yearns lay — 

 fometimes after peas, or after huk harvejled 

 or buck plowed under, or turneps, or fome- 

 times on a " right-out fummerly,'* or, 

 fiimmer fallow. But it may be faid, without 

 Jiazard, that three-fourths, perhaps nine- 

 tenths, of the wheat fown in this part of the 

 Diftrid, is fown on the fecortd yearns lay, 



IV, Soil-process, — This varies with the 

 nature and ftate of the foil, — the nature of the 

 preceding crop, — the circumftance of the 

 farm,— and the ikill and judgment of the 

 farmer. 



I, The prevailing practice is to make a 

 •* t^ackward fummerly"- — a fort of GHtamnal 

 fallow — of the second yxar's lay. 



When feed is fcarcc, the fecond year's lay . 

 is fometimes fown on the ^' flag;'* that is^ 

 upon the unbroken furrow of one plowing', 

 cf}>ecially if the ^tQd. be intended to be dtb- 

 plcd vn. But, for b road ca(l-fo wing, neither 



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