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dug otit> and let the wheat take its chance of being 

 properly covered in the digging, and then gave it a 

 flight harrowing; and by this method I had a crop 

 of ten barrels to the acre j which I afcrlbed to the 

 feed being better covered by being dug in, than it 

 would have been by the harrow in the ufual way* 

 I do not, however, recommend this to be done the 

 firft time this husbandry is tried, though the expe- 

 riment may be made in one ridge only, and accord- 

 ing as that fucceeds, it may be purfued or not 

 hereafter. 



July, 1786. THO. KILLALUE. 



Article XX. 

 Observations on the Dijeafe called the Wind in Sheep. 



[By Mr. J. Webb, Apothecary.] 

 CENtlEMEtf, Doynton^ GlouceJIerJhire. 



NUMEROUS as the difeafes of the brute cre- 

 ation are, I believe they fuffer but little lefs 

 from them than from the abfurd means that fre- 

 quently are adminiftered for their relief arifing 

 from the generality of farmers being very ignorant 

 both of the/eat and caufe of the complaint. This 



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