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and laid in green, covered with peafe or wheat- 

 draw, and above ic ftrong clay. Drains thus made 

 >vill lafl: twenty years. 



']thly. The kinds of wood we find to flourilh 

 bed on boggy foils are, alder, fallow, willow, and 

 poplar. Scotch fir does well in a barren foil, efpe- 

 cially if it has a gravelly bottom. 



2^thly. Thefe grafles are not raifed with us. 



1 otbly. We moftly prefer the broadcaft to the 

 drill hufbandry, 



iithly. We know of no other advantage in the 

 ufe of oxen, than that of keeping lefs ftock; as 

 horfes are more expeditious, and will pay for their 

 keeping by extra labour, 



iithly. The moft effectual preventative for the 

 rot in Iheep is to keep them on dry land j it being 

 found, by general experience, that wet lands bring 

 the rot upon them, efpecially if the feed be bare. 

 In order to cure them, many experiments have been 

 tried, but to little purpofe, 



lyhly. Few new improvements in implements 

 of hufbandry, that are of much confequence, have 

 been made or adopted in this part of the country. 



General 



