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Sect. XVI. 2.2. 



OF 



SEEDS, 



437 



ftems without tranfplantation, which confifts in fowingthe wh 



by what is called a drill-plough according to xMr.Tull's method 



d wh 



firft ftems rife a few inches h 



o 



horfe-h 



mad 



ke a very fmall plough 



be brought fo 



ach row, as to 



fome earth againft the flems, fo as to cover the firft joint 



whence 



ftems will be generated , and 



o 



d thus increafe the crop in the fame 



turn up 



above the root with foi 



ihoot up round the old 



manner as by deep tranfplantation. 



The theory of Mr.TuU's drill hufbandry Is explained in Se6l:. IX 

 3. 7. and in XII. 5. which is of late years fuppofed to have been im 



proved by introducing the hand-h 



place of the horfe 



d 



thus (living an opportunity of fowing the rows or d 



o 



th 



be feen by the following method, now Introduced 



almoft general ufe in Norfolk by Mr. Coke ^ though Mr.TuU him- 

 felf much prefers the horfe-hoe a^ turning over the earth much 



deeper than the hand-h 



d th 



ndering that part of it more 



expofed to the air, which was before more deeply fecluded from It ; 

 and alfo rendering it more pervious to vegetable roots ; to which may 

 be added, that both kinds of hoeing render the furface more perme- 



able 



the rains and d 



d prevent the cracks in dry wea 



hich are very injurious to the roots of pi 



both which ad 



\ 



depend on the porofity of 



foil, which mull: extend deeper 



by the ufe of the horfe-hoe than the hand-hoe 



Mr.Tull mak 



o 



emark 



the ufe of Horfe-h 



mg. 

 blad 



In the beginning of winter, when the wheat has obtained 



ke 



a 



fs 



or two or three leaves, the horfe-hoe is broug 



d deep, and the earth 



ed from them fo as to 



form a ridge between them. By this ridge in level grounds he thinks 



the rows are (liaded from the cold winds in fome fituatlons, and that 

 the roots of the wheat are kept drier, and thence lefs injured by frofts. 

 In the fpring this ridge in the intervals between the rows is divided 



by the horfe-hoe, and turned back agairift the rows of corn after It 



has 



