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as little interruption as he could do for one 

 plov/. For although two or three plows are 

 employed in the fame piece, there are no frefh 

 fettings-out, nor any crofs-work at lafl -, favc 

 fuch as is neceflarily given by the figure of the 

 field. There is much time faved (more efpe- 

 cially when wheel-plows are ufed) in altering 

 the plows,* and the whole piece is equally well 

 executed ; each ridge being fet out^ and each 

 furrow made up,- by the fame men. 



The Nbrfolk plowmen, when plowing in 

 wheat, ca'rry very narrow furrows; fo that a fix- 

 furrow ridge, fet out by letting the ofF-horfe 

 return in the firft-made furrow^ does not mea- 

 fure more than three feet eight or nine inches.- 



2. After the first year's lay the feed 

 is generally fown on the flag. 



3. After peas, the farmer gives one two 

 three or four plowings, and manages in every 

 other refpedt the fame a's he does after the 

 fecond year's lay. 



4. After buck harvested, he is more con- 

 fined in refped: of tune, and feldom gives more 

 than two, fometimes but one, plowing. If 

 he plow twice, he fpreads his manure on the 

 Hubble, fcales it in fleet, harrows, rolls, fows 

 and gathefs up the foil a mean depth into 



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