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which in moifl; weather renders it wholly ufc- 

 lets. The feed is Town broadcaft over the in- 

 dentures, and fwept in with abufh-harrow. 



1 have feen wheat come up very well after 

 the fpiky roller ; but an implement which a 

 Ihower of rain renders ufelefs, feems ill-adapted 

 to the bufinefs of fowing wheit in November*. 



4. Quantity of seed. — Three bulliels an 

 acre, broadcafl, is the favorite quantity df 

 feed-wheat; without much regard being had 

 to the time of fowing. 



This accounts in fome meafure for the want 

 of fuccefs in the early-fown wheats; Three 

 bufhels of feed fown in September is equal to 

 four or five buihels fown the latter end of 

 November. It is no wonder, then, that the 

 flraw fliould prove llender^ and the grain light J 

 for the plants being too numerous, and the foil 

 weak and Ihallow, though perhaps in fufii- 

 cient heart to pufh the plants through the win- 

 ter and fpring, the vigour of the foil is fpent 

 before harveft, and the ears of courfe abridged 

 of half their load. "Whereas, had there been 

 a due proportion of plants, the exhauftion 

 during winter and fpring would have been lefs, 

 and the flrength of the foil referved for the 

 * The fluthig roller I did not meet with. 



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