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quently the plant cut in two by the froft and 

 wet weather : and it may be obferved that it 

 is moftly in very fevere winters that wheat is 

 deftroyed by what is called wire-worms. Lad 

 winter I had nine acres all Town with the fame 

 fort of wheat; but the land differently treated. 

 Of the nine acres there had been one acre and a 

 half of peas for podding; with four loads of 

 manure on it. In the midft of thefe, half an 

 acre of beans, with four loads of manure.— ■ 

 There had been four acres of potatoes, with 

 eighteen loads upon each acre — two acres and 

 a half of peas, with four loads of manure per 

 acre — and half an acre fown broad-caft with 

 field peas, and fix loads of manure on it. The 

 wire-worm, fo called, was more or lefs deftrucl:- 

 ive in proportion, as more or lefs manure was 

 laid'on each part of the field. Where the beans 

 had grown in the middle of the peas, there was 

 a remarkably fine crop; but on both fides, in 

 fome places, where the land was the moft wet 

 by nature, although very well griped and drain- 

 ed, more than half of the wheat was deftroyed 

 from want of a lufficient quantity of manure to 

 give vigour to the plants. Beans are generally 



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