190 MANAGEMENT OF WHEAT. 



double mouldboard plow being ufed by fome 

 farmers. The rows or ridgets of foil and 

 clods, forced up by the plow, on either lide 

 of the furrow, are afterw^ards pulled up- 

 ward, and the furface in general adjurted, 

 with " haul-to's" — or three-tined dung 

 drags ; giving the ridges, with this rude 

 tool, a degree of finifh. 



General jobservations. It need 

 not be remarked, that the fetting about, and 

 the fpreading of lime and earth, hacking 

 over the ridges, and finally adjuiling them, 

 require a great fupply of hand labour. 

 Ten acres of Wheat put into the ground, 

 in the manner of this Diftrid:, take up 

 more manual labor, than hfty acres fown in 

 the ordiqary way. Neverthelefs, the labor 

 is not all loft ; the land, belide receiving 

 additional tilth in the operation, is more 

 evenly feeded, and wdth a lefs quantity of 

 feed, than it would require without it j and, 

 in a country where labor is plentiful and 

 cheap, it might be v^rong to withhold any 

 part of it, fo long as the prefent fyftem of 

 management fiiall be purfued. 



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