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the form of a lane ; for, there, much depend^ 

 upon the eye; whereas, by the Norfolk method, 

 the feedfman fees to an inch how far he has 

 fown, and where each handful ought to fall; he, 

 of courfe, leaves no flips unfown, nor gives 

 others double feed. 



If the foil be intended to be gathered into 

 fix-furrow ridges, the feedfman fows, on the 

 warps, about two-thirds of his feed; — if into 

 four-furrow work, fomewhat lefs than two- 

 thirds *. 



The plowman then begins to fet out his 

 ridges, the fame way that the warps are drawn ; 

 but without any regard either as to their 

 ilraightnefs, or their width ; they being in- 

 tended merely to diredt the feedfman, not the 

 plowman. In fix-furrow work, the middle- 

 bout plowman follows next, and after him the 

 feedfman, ftraining the remainder of his feed 

 in the trenches made by the middle-bout 

 plow ; which is called " fowing the furrows." 

 The head-plowman follows laft , — covers up 

 the feed, and finiflies the work. In four-fur- 

 row work, the two firft furrows are fown, and 

 the ridgelets made up in a fimilar way, 



* See MiN. 67, on this operation. 



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