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the fecond fix years, if my plan be followed, I 

 expert to have fourteen loads. 



In making the above ftatement I have fol- 

 lowed the ufual mode of calculations upon 

 agriculture, by charging the manure as an ex- 

 pence 5 which, however, is very wrong, when 

 it is not purchafed, but produced from the 

 land* 



SECTION IX. 



TVbeat-CrQp through all the ft ages, Drill-Huf* 

 bandry or Broad-Caft, Reaping, tfbrajhing, 

 cutting Straw for Chaff, &c. 



TO fow wheat by the drill, fix pecks of feed 

 are thought fufficient for one acre : but I fay, 

 ten pecks 5 for broad-caft, twelve. Two men 

 with one horfe will drill with Cook's machine 

 eight acres in one day. By broad-caft, one 

 man will fow twelve. 



To prevent the fmut in wheat, difTolve fait 

 in water till an egg fwims in it : put your feed- 

 wheat into the brine, and feparate the light 

 grains that fwim at the top from thofe which 

 fink. Some let it remain twenty-four hours 

 in the brine : this I difapprove of, as it can 

 produce no good, and bad confluences may 

 enfue. When you have taken the wheat out 



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