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way of hoeing ; the great ufe of it muft> 

 be inftead of harrowing, which is by fome 

 farmers in the eaft of England much prac- 

 tifed. In a field, juft by the homeftall of 

 50 acres, wherein I faw that machine, Mr. 

 Middlemore hasfeveral curious experiments. 

 This clofe of 50 acres was a few years ago 

 let at one milling an acre in Sward; but 

 Mr. Middlemore taking it into his own 

 hands, broke it up, and has kept it in til- 

 lage ever fince with great fuccefs. There 

 are a few acres of it occupied by a crop of 

 peafe in drills equally diftant of one foot: 

 They were never hoed, but were well 

 corned ; however, the crop was by no means 

 equal to thofe of the neighbourhood broad- 

 cart, nor to what the land would in that 

 manner have produced. 



In this field I likewife found a remark- 

 able experiment on barley : Obferving a 

 large breadth of it, with a great difference 

 between one fide and the other, I enquired 

 the reafon ; and the bailiff informed me, 

 that the heft part (which I apprehend will 

 be full five quarters per acre) fucceeded 

 cabbages, and the other part (which does 

 not promife above 37 quarters) turnips. 

 Adjoining this barley is a good crop of 

 wheat, with fainfoine drilled among it in 

 one part, and fown broad-caft in another - y 

 the latter was harrowed in fpring, and be- 

 nefited the crop j both rife very finely. In 



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