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Sect. XVI. 2. 2, 



OF 



SEEDS. 



439 



of corn are but nine Inches from each oth 



and 



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IS 



circumftance well worth obferving, as it removes 



occafional trampling of the horfe on the young plants is of no very 



ill confequence, a 



the principal difadvantage of the horfe-hoe, which confifts in the too 



great diftance of the alternate rows of the corn-plants. 



By the earth being thus accumulated againfl: the roots of the corn 



that is, to throw out four or fix 



, and thus to increafe the 

 . infomuch that Mr. Coke 



it is faid to tiller or tellure much 



ftems 



or mor 



d the original ftem 



mber of ears like tranfplanting th 



obtains by this method bet 



four and five quarters of Vv'h 



very acre, which in the broad-cafi: method of fowing did not yield 

 more than three quarters on an acre, befide faving a fi:rike and half of 



th 



feed 



flarily confumed 



HI 



th 



broad-caft method of 



To this fhould be added another advantage, that as the 

 land is thus kept clear from weeds, and has its fiirface twice turned 



fowing. 



over 



d thus expofed to th 



found to faveone plough 



for the purpofe of a fucceeding crop of turnips. 



It is probable, that one hand-hoeing in the beginning of winter, fo 

 manao-ed as to turn the foil from the roots of the corn, and to leave it 

 rather elevated between the rows, 



as Mr. Tull 



ommends to be 



performed by h 

 mode of cultivai 



horfe-hoe, might give a fimilar advantag 



to th 



ion ; and alfo if another hand-hoeing was applied, a 

 foon as the wheat is out of blofibm, to fupply more nourifhment to th 

 youno- feed might increafe its plumpnefsand weight, as mentioned ii 



No. 2. 3. of this Seifl 



The land 



managed by Mr. Coke are laid 



and not in 



dcres and furrows, and can thus be ploughed crofswife ; and 



the 



p is equally good throughout the whole 



thefu 



of fome lands it is lefs forward or lefs prolific than on the ridges ; 

 whence much light corn is mixed with the good, which is obliged to 

 be feparated from that,. which is marketable, and ufed for hogs or 



poultry. Add to this, that ia this mode of hulbandry the ftraw is be- 

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