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III. Ic likewlfc SUCCEEDS every fpccics of 

 crop; the ftate of the foil, as to fouhiefs and 

 poverty, being generally more attended to 

 than cither the nature of the foil or the crop 

 it bore laft. 



IV. The soil-process depends upgn the 

 ftate of the foil, and the intention, jointly : 

 if the foil be tolerably clean, and the buck be 

 intended to be plowed under as a manure, jt i^ 

 fovvn on one plowing : but, in general, the 

 ground is broken, as fpr barley, or peas, t* 

 forward the fallow, and fecure a crop. 



V. The seed-process is the fame for b,oth 

 intentions ; excepting that, for a crop, the 

 feed is fown firft ; namely, immediately after b^r- 

 Iey:feel : and that intended to be plowed under, 

 is fown as foon afterward 5 as the ground is in 

 a flate fit to receive the feed. It is univerfally 

 fown above- furrow. The quantity of feed fix 

 pecks to two buflicis an acre. 



VI. No VEGETATING-PROCESS takes place : 

 the growth of buck is fo rapid as to outftrip 

 and fmothcr almofl every fpecies of weeds; 

 aq excellency peculiar to this crop. 



Vli. This 



