WEST DEVONSHIRE. iSg 



Previous to the fowing, the entire fur- 

 face of the field is hacked over, bV 

 HAND ! with large heavy hoes or hacks : 

 each man taking two plits ; which, in the 

 feed plowing for Wheat, are plowed of a 

 narrow width, and which, in this operation, 

 are cut into fquare clods, the fize of fpits 

 or fpade bits : and, it is very, probable, 

 the pradice has grown out of the hand cul- 

 ture, which, in every country, probably, 

 preceded the ufe of the plow. 



The QUANTITY OF SEED frOHl tWO tO 



two and a half Winchefter bulliels. 



Sown in feparate ridges, and at one caft. 



Covered, with light harrows and two 

 horfes. 



Adjusted, in an extraordinary manner. 

 Until very lately, the interfurrows were 

 univerfally hacked and lliovelled out,' by 

 hojzd. The unplowed flips, having been 

 reduced to fragments witli hacks, were 

 thrown over the ridges, or into hollows or 

 vacancies, by the fides of the furrows, and 

 the furface otherwife adjufled, withfhovels. 

 Now, it is become the more general prac- 

 tice, to open the furrows with the plow ; a 



double 



