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Sect. XVI 



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SEEDS 



V 



44 



/ 



inches deep, as 



commonly d 



g potato 



holes are made hy a man, who has 



L planth 



proper flafF (hod with iron 



thefe 



HI 



each hand, and as he walks backwards is able by looking at the 

 part of the row already made to keep nearly in a ftraight line, and to 

 make two holes at once at about nine inches diftant from each other 



Two or more children attend the man, and drop two 



every way 



th 



four feed 



each perpendicular hole, which are 



f 



ards covered by drawing over 



them what is called a bufti-h 



row 



This method by fowing the wheat in rows adapts it for the ufc of 

 the hand-hoe, as by fowing it by a drill machine, but mufl be attend- 

 ed with greater expence, and I fufped with lefs accuracy of the dif- 

 tribution of the feed, owing' to the hurry or fatigue of the child— 



employed 



and I alfo fufped that fowing in d 



preferable, be 



caufe a greater quantity of earth is turned over, and much air in con 

 fequence included in its interftices; whereas in making perpendicuh 

 holes the fides of the holes are compreffed, and rendered more folid 



whence potato 



alfo might probably be more 



advantageoufly 



\f 



planted by making drills inflcad of perpendicular holes. 



A correfpondent of the board of agriculture aiterts, that on looki 

 over a field of potatoes near Leicefter, which had all been planted 



and on land equally manured, he obferved a gr 



the fame time 



difference of the growth of one part of the field, which 



he found to have been owing to the roots having been planted 



quiry 



in 



drill 



h 



th 



plan 



w 



fo much fl 



o 



and by a fett 





flick in holes, where they were fo muchlefs vigorous; Englifli En- 

 clyclopedia. Art, Hufbandry, p. 483 - which difference of growth I 

 fuppofe to have been owing to the circumflances above mentioned. 

 A few ears of wheat were lately given me, which were branched, 

 bavins four or five lefs ears 2;rowing out of each fide of the principal 



ear 



procured at Liverpoo 



d was called Egyptian wh 



Smyrna wh 



It is defcribed in the Supplem. Plantarum of th 



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youn 



