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bury the ftubble and weeds. In this cafe there 

 will be a new foil uppei moft, which being frcfti 

 to the air, will receive much greater and more 

 lafting benefit from the fun, the rain, and the 

 frofts, than it otherwife could do, as thereby it 

 will attract a greater quantity of the nutrition 

 which thefe afford. The ftubble and weeds, be- 

 ing by this method of ploughing buried deep, will 

 much fooner rot than when juft covered. In this 

 ftate the ridges will lie high, and if the land be 

 wet or of the brick-earth kind, will be full of 

 clots or large lumps. 



No time mould now be loft by delaying to 

 render this newly turned up foil as fine as harrow- 

 ing can make it. I know in this particular my 

 judgment will be called in queftion by numbers. 

 Common farmers will fay, " To what purpofe 

 u is all this expence and labour, when, if the 

 u land be fuffered to lie in 'its rough ftate 

 " through the winter, the froft and the rains will 

 " do the work for you?" But this is the language 

 of the fluggard, and the inexperienced huiband- 

 man only. 



I am convinced, by repeated experiments, clofc 

 obfervation, and plain reafoning on known facls, 

 that lands which are made fine before the fharp 



froft 



