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Would create a greater plenty of vegetables, 

 and in all probability reduce the price. 



What has been faid of peas and cabbages, 

 is equally applicable to beans. But the rooks 

 are fo fond of them, and deftroy fuch quanti- 

 ties, that the farmer may fometimes be difap- 

 pointed of a good crop — a circumftance which 

 has happened to me - y for I have found it im- 

 poflible to k?ep thefe voracious birds off, al- 

 though I had a woman conftantly in the field 

 for the purpofe. 



I had an excellent crop of onions, fown broad- 

 caft, entirely managed by the plough and har- 

 rows. 



The greateft produce of wheat I have had 

 has been upon fallow, from fowing under fur- 

 row as near i ~ inch deep as it was pofllble to 

 plough. The method is as follows : Harrow 

 the land very fine, and then make a mark with 

 the plough upon the place where the ridge is 

 intended to be. Then fow the wheat, and turn 

 a furrow over it. Then continue fowing down 

 the furrow after the plough. A boy or a girl 

 is much better than a man or a woman for any 

 of this fort of work. By being nearer to the 



ground 



