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into the land, where it will lie like a ftone j but if 

 it had been pernnitted to remain on the top of the 

 fvvard, the fun, wind, and rain, would have meli- 

 orated the lumps fo as to flait abroad like a lime- 

 ftonej and being thus divided into fmall particles, 

 it would of its own accord (at leaft alTifted by the 

 earth-drag) incorporate with the land, and promote 

 vegetation. However, if a clofe of meadow hath 

 been much trod by cattle, it certainly ought to be 

 rolled, (if but for the reafon of clofe mowing and 

 feeding) but it fhould be done at a particular point 

 of times for it is poflible in the morning it may be 

 fo wet as to clog the roller, and the land may 

 become prefled into pits ; yet a twelve-hours hard 

 dry March wind, affifled by a fcorching May fun, 

 will make the land fo fliff that it muft be a heavy 

 roller to make it fmooth. 



When meadow land abounds with mofs, as is 

 fometimes the cafe, and the farmer hath no op- 

 portunity to tread it well with cattle by feeding 

 them upon it in the winter or fpring, I then recom- 

 mend the fpike- roller as the bed method of de- 

 flroying it next to fuch treading 5 but in this cafe 

 there ought to be fown fome white clover or other 

 graf^-feeds about the field; if in fmall rain, th^ better 

 it will be beaten into the pits made by the roller^ 



but 



