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to infer from what I have faid above, that I 

 approve of fixreen grains in one place -, but 

 only of four inftead of one. 



On drawing up the ftubble, I have likewife 

 difcovered that wheat depofited deep tillers very 

 little. 1 attribute this to the root*s being too 

 near the rannel or dead earth, fo that it (lands 

 in a poor cold fituation, has its food to feek 

 upwards, and generally throws out another 

 root near the furface. 



In drill-peas, by thick fowlng in the ex- 

 trenne ( viz. four bufhels inftead of three ) the 

 peas will be fix inches high, when in the 

 drills fown with three bulliels they will be on- 

 ly four inches high. I never procured how- 

 ever, on an average, a more abundant crop 

 .of peas by fowing thick. In fowing in drills 

 tares to cut, or any other fort of green fodder, 

 it is necefTary to fow very thick, 



I am of opinion, I could dibble an acre of 

 wheat to raife as much wheat as the land could 

 bear: but, if the foil were good, 1 would fee 

 every three inches. 



I approve of fowing the fallow-land under 

 furrow 5 with a boy to depofit the feed at 6d, 



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