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and a half is the moft beneficial quantity. 

 The fecond table proves equally clear, that 

 the larger quantity of feed is, upon the 

 whole, moft advantageous. 



At this I am not furprized ; for if peafe 

 are not hoed (which is the cafe through 

 nine-tenths of the kingdom) the crop re- 

 quires to be fown fo thick as to enable it 

 foon to fmother the weeds, which it can 

 only do by joining, and the tendrils en- 

 tangling with each other ; this thicknefs 

 kills the weeds -, whereas, if the feed is 

 fpread very thin, the weeds have time to 

 gain much vigour before the peafe begin 

 the attack ; and as to richnefs of foil, and 

 the fuperior ftrength of a vegetable that 

 {lands (ingle over that of others which are 

 crouded -, this reafoning is as applicable to 

 the weeds as to the crop; the fertility of 

 foil will carry on the one as well as the 

 other. 



Beans. 



From two and two bufieh and an half. 



Crop, Crop. 



Numb. 2. — 20 Numb. 67. — 23 



4. — 25 70. — 30 



9. — 24 76. — 40 



3°- — 3 2 

 Average product, 3 quarters, 3 bufhels, 2 pecks. 



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