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For elm fences, the plants thus raifed have greatly 

 the advantage of others, as five or fix, and fre-» 

 quendy a greater nunnber of (lems will arife from 

 the fame chip; and fuch plants, when cut down 

 within three inches of the ground, will multiply 

 their fide fhoots in proportion, and make a hedge 

 thicker, without running to naked wood, than by 

 any other method yet pradifed. If kept dipt for 

 three or four years, they will be amoft impenetrable^ 



Stable-yard dung is commonly ufed as a manure 

 on land intended to be fown with wheat; but let it 

 be obferved that this dung is more produdive of 

 weeds than any other manure. A crop of wheat 

 cannot be kept too clean ; hence much trouble and 

 cxpence are occafioned by fo injudicious a procefs. 

 To remedy or rather to prevent this inconvenience, 

 inftead of fowing a newly dunged fallow with wheat, 

 fow it firft with white oats^ thefe will take off the 

 ranknefs of the dung, deftroy numberlefs weeds, 

 and leave the land in excellent order for wheat the 

 following autumn. In fhort, it is nearly equal to 

 a turnip-fallow. 



The ravages of the fty on turnips have frequently 

 occafioned great lofs to the farmer, and many re- 

 medies have been propofed, moft of which have 



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