. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. 733. 6152 Sail and climate. A rirh loamy soil, which ill grow good wheat, tobacco, or potatoes, will grow the strongest plants; but the cornon men plants will bemuch los likely tori|ien than that pro-duced on a dry, warm,sandy, or calcareous soil It must be ob-vious, from what hasbeen before advanced, that there are few, itany, parts of Britainnorth
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. 733. 6152 Sail and climate. A rirh loamy soil, which ill grow good wheat, tobacco, or potatoes, will grow the strongest plants; but the cornon men plants will bemuch los likely tori|ien than that pro-duced on a dry, warm,sandy, or calcareous soil It must be ob-vious, from what hasbeen before advanced, that there are few, itany, parts of Britainnorth of York wherethe climate will be atall suitable to thisgrain. 5153. Culture. Thisgrain is almost everywhere sown or plantedin rows, placed at sucha width as to admit ofhorse-hoeing the in-tervals. When this ispractised, as the graincontains very littlegluten, the crop maybe considered as agood preparation forwheat in very richsoils ; it accordinglyprecedes that grain inthe best cultivatedparts of North Ame-rica ; but we question ifit would be advisableto follow this practicein old cultivated coun-tries, notwithstandingthat maize and wheatdiffer so much in re-gard to gluten. 5154. The preparation of the sni!may be the same as for a crop ofbarley
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