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PRO DUCTION 



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Sect. XVI. 2.2 



ileved to be larger and in greater quantity as well as the grain, and 

 the land to be lefs impoveriflied, as no weeds are fufFered to grow on 



it, and as its furface is fo frequently turned over, andexpofed to the 



air. 



In China the corn lands are laid on a level, not in ridees and fur 



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rows 



; which is fuppofed to be the moft advantageous plan in almofl 

 every fituation, which is proper for the'cultivation of corn, ashy being 

 thus rendered capable of being divided by crofs-ploughing, almoft any 

 kind of foil may be rendered more proper for the ufe of the drill huf- 

 bandry, by which it is feen in the above account of the Norfolk ma- 



& 



ement. that tw 



ftrikes more of wheat are raifed 



and one ftrike and a half faved in the confumption of feed-wheat, 



which at fix fhillings a ftrike arifes to a confiderable fum on a laro-e 

 farm. 



Neverthelefs there feem to be many advantages attending the 

 forming the furface of land into ridges and furrows; in wet lands 

 with a fubftratum of clay the furrows are convenient channels to 

 carry off the water, where there is a fufficient declivity, as treated of 

 by Mr.Tull in his Horfe-hoeing Hufbandry, Ch. XVI. Add to this. 



that in fome fituations a deeper ftratum of the foil, whe 

 able, may be occafionally turned up, and expofed to th 



th( 

 rid 

 foi 



roots of vegetables, by gradually ch 



6"'6 



th 



air, and to 

 ity of the 



o 



d laftly, in 



y 



fit 



a greater furface both of th 



t) 



d of the fummits of the ftems. or ears, are 



pofed 



th 



e 



fluence of the air by means of ridges and furrows ; for as the pi 



of wheat are but three or four feet high, the furf 



of 



rop 



f 



wheat is increafed as well as the furface of the ground it grows upon 

 and not as the bafe on which the declivities or hills reft, 

 have erroneoufly fuppofed. See. Sedl. X. 3. 8. 



as 



fome 



There is another method of fowing wheat in rows ufed 



in 



fom 



counties, which 



med dibbl 



£> 



the lanofuase of 



a — a 



& 



d confifts in making perpendicular holes oae inch and half 



inches 





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