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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1796 Excerpt: ... with a small proportion of barley brujh. A fact which a stranger, riding through the district, and seeing the fine crops of wheat which it produces, would not readily credit. I met with a few instances of wheat being sown, on turf, of six or seven years leying; and with several, on clover ley, once plowed: also with some, os wheat after turners. But the best crops which this, or almost any other district produces, are sown after fummerjallow: The practice, however, is confined principally to one leading man;--Mr. Princep of Croxall. Nevex Westward of the Tame--the soil a light sandy loam, --jt is the prevailing practice to sow wheat after turneps, fed oft'withslieep in autumn. Nevertheless, viewing the district generally, the universal matrix of wheat may be said to be Oat Stubble; of which, only, 'I shall speak. III. TILLAGE. The soil process varies, in the practice of different individuals. Some plow, once, lengthway, as the old turf was plowed for oats. Others plow, once, across, cutting the plits of the old turf at right angles afterwards, gathering a bout, that? is, laying two plits back to back, in each interfurrow-; to drain more effectually the wide ridges, in which the lands of the district are chiefly laid. Others break the ground (provincially work their brushes --) by two plowings; the first across, the last lengthway: and some few by three plowings; lengthway, across, length way. The first is a filthy-looking, slovenly practice; though a common one. The second, with the same labor, is infinitely preferable 3 and, in a wet autumn, may be more eligible, than breaking the ground, by a greater number of plowings. When the season and other circumstances will permit, the last is, u- 'doubt, to be preferred. IV, MA, . IV. M...

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