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An ameliorating fallow crop here inter- 

 venes between every two of corn, or the 

 exhaufting ones ; and when fuch a courfe 

 is conducted with fpirit, moft certainly none 

 can exceed it. 



For beans he ploughs twice, fows them 

 in equally diftant drills, 20 inches afunder, 

 with a plough marked Plate V. Fig. 1. 

 among the preceding infiruments ; 3 bufhels 

 of feed per acre: He horfe-hoes them with a 

 machine, Plate V. Fig. 4. which anfwers 

 extremely well in loofening the foil and 

 cutting the weeds. This operation he re- 

 peats from three to {even times, according 

 to the quantity of weeds, but always fo as 

 to keep the ground perfectly free from 

 them ; befules this, he hand-hoes the rows 

 once with a fmall hoe, which clears away all 

 the weeds that grow there. By means of 

 this treatment, the land is in excellent or- 

 der for wheat, after the crop of beans is 

 off, which is very feldom lefs than 5 quar- 

 ters per acre. 



Peafe he manages in the fame manner, 

 drills 3 bufhels and an half, but they only 

 require the horfe-hoeing ; the crop upon 

 an average is 4 quarters per acre. 



The tillage for the wheat is varied ac- 

 cording to the cleanneis of the land ; if 

 frequent fhowers have brought up many 

 weeds after the laft lu^rie-hoeing, it is 

 U 3 ploughed 



