i88 MANAGEMENT OF WHEAT. 



the Northern parts of the Ifland, might 

 travel through all the countries of Europe, 

 and not find pradlices lefs foreign to his 

 own, than thofe of Devonfhire. 



The TIME OF SOWING "Wheat is late ^ 

 the feed time continuing, from October to 

 near Chriflmas. The reafon given for 

 late fowing is, that " early fown crops are 

 liable to weeds." This precaution, added 

 to the burning and the lime (as before 

 mentioned), account more fully for the 

 cleannefs of the Wheat crops of this Dif-^ 

 trid:, notwithftand'ing the foulnefs of the 

 foil with refped to weed feeds. But in a 

 backward and uncertain climature, late 

 fowing cannot be altogether right. 



The SEED PLOWING, which, in the 

 ordinary pra(!^ice of the Diflridl, is the only 

 full-depth plowing given for Wheat, takes 

 place immediately previouc to the fowing. 

 The Ibil is, 1 believe, invariably, laid up in 

 narrow lands ; and, in general, diagonally 

 acrofs the field ! The ufual width is four 

 bouts, or eight plits ; one plit, or narrow 

 balk, being left flanding in each inter- 

 furrow. 



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