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of the feed to be faved.* This feafon, however, 

 it becomes an object of the greatcft importance; 

 in the Northern parts of this kingdom, there is a 

 very great fcarcity of corn fit for feed; the harvefl 

 was folate that the corn did not ripen, and of 

 courfe, a great deal of bad feed will be reaped ; 

 if fo, when the corn fprings, it muft be very thin, 

 puny, and probably difeafed. This then is the 

 sera for applying the harrow and roller to great 

 advantage, upon fields which are not very pro- 

 mifing. If the farmer is fatisfied with the appear- 

 ance of his crop, after it is fprung, I do not prc- 

 fcribe — it is only when people are Tick that they 

 apply to a doctor. 



I do not prefume to recommend any thing more 

 at prefent, than the ufe of the harrow and roller, 

 from which the farmers in Norfolk and in EfTex 

 derive fo much advantage. (They may berufed in 

 many other counties, but it is not yet come to 

 my knowledge.) I will, however, venture to re- 

 commend a repetition of them; that is to fay, if 

 great advantage is obferved on harrowing and 

 rolling once, that fometime afterwards, when the 

 roots have had time to ftrike into the earth, and 

 the corn to tiller, it mould be again harrowed 



• This is not the cafe in drilling ; the extra expence is much more 

 than faved in the feed. 



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