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Sect. XVI. 2. q. 



o 



OF 



SEEDS. 



443 



quantity of the fubfcquent crop 



See Se6l. IX. 3. 7 



It fhould b 



U 



thelefs obferved here, that the trampling of the (heep on land 

 which are not too adhefive, will prefs down the firft or fecond joii 



ft the produ6lion of many fide (h 



the earth 



d th 



But in very adhefive foils this trampling of the ftems into the ground 

 may be injurious. See a paper in Bath Agriculture, Vol. I. Art. XV. 

 In foils which are not too adhefive, when the crop appears th 



probable, that a 



drawn over it by prefilng the firft or fecond 



joint into the foil, might promote the produdion of fide (hoots, or 



ake them 



or tellure, 



th 



00 



of 



to 



And 



when grafs or clover feeds 



are.defigned to be fown on the wh 



d, it micrht firft be harrowed, and then either rolled or trampled 



by th 



fheep, which eat it 



eith 



down the root-ftems of the 

 feeds with foil 



er or both of which might prefs 



and cover the newly fown clover- 



This mode of eating down forward wheat with (heep is analo 



a 



them prod 

 quantity 



o- off the central buds of melons and cucumbers to make 

 ^ ' ' greater 



fruit, and in this climate perhaps in 



as thofe produced after the great 



extent and elongation 



of the central branches would be too late to ripen in this dim? 

 and by their exuberant generation of a viviparous progeny would 



tard 



fuccefi^ion of lateral (h 



and a confequent quicker pro 



duiSlion of flowers. 



Neverthelefs where the crop 



too forward 



the eating down the firft ftem by (heep may be an injurious pradice; 

 QS Mr.Tull thinks, that by thus deftroying the firft ftem, the ears of 

 the later ones have not time to ripen, and thence become light in re- 

 fped to the fize or plumpnefs of the grain ; and that thefe fecondary 

 ftems become weak, and arc liable to fall down, both which he fays 

 commonly occur where the crops are eaten by (heep. 



Mr.TulU whofe work is throuorhout a great effort of human 



o 



julds a very wife axiom 



(( 



th 



is moft advantageous to haften, 



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