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proving kind, it may not be in less danger of being so big, as to fall down and be spoiled.

Observation. Were all this true, the old husbandry farmer could have no chance for a crop, yet the experience of a thousand years proves the contrary.

5. If no impediment prevents the ploughing deep and sowing wet, there is seldom time for it, as all the ground must be ploughed, yet whilst it is wet no work can be done. Observation. It seems here taken for granted that all the land is of one sort which very rarely happens.

6. When land is sowed under furrow, it is dangerous to plough very deep, for fear of too much during the seed; and if shallow it loses a great advantage. Observation. This objection has no force for the Virgilian plows deep for a fallow, and shallow when he sows his seed; which is the practice of the Tullian when he plants with his drill-plough.

7. When land is sowed over furrow, it must be harrowed level to cover the seed, which exposes the Wheat the more to the cold winds catchword and /catchword