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The greateft enemies fainfoin has to encounter, 

 are f^rafs and weeds: thefe, in land that is tolerably 

 good, foon overcome and deftroy it, unlefs the far- 

 mer will take the trouble, and be at the expence of 

 keeping it clean. But this is by no means fo for- 

 midable an undertaking as hath been generally 

 thought, provided the land be very well cleaned 

 and duly pulverised before the feed be fown, and 

 provided alfo it be fown in rows from fifteen to 

 eighteen inches diftant, which is as near as it ought 

 to be fown, if intended for a lading 'plantation. 

 At thofe diftances, the intervals between the rows 

 may be kept perfe6lly clean with a fmall plough and 

 a narrow drag of about twelve inches wide. With 

 thefe inftruments feveral acres may be cleaned in a 

 day, and fuppofing this to be done three times in 

 a fummer, the expence would amount but to a trifle. 

 My drag is twelve inches wide, and proves extremely 

 ufeful in drilled crops of every kind, as alfo in thofe 

 of what nature foever that are planted in rows. 



Lucerne, under a fimilar management, would be 

 a very great improvement on arable farms. In- 

 deed an opinion generally prevails, that it requires 

 a much better foil than is commonly found. Crops 

 of all kinds are more abundant on a good than on 

 a bad foil, if they arc kept clean -, but it is a very 



erroneous 



