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when you plcafc. N. B. There muft be a pole 



at each fide of the field. 



It is of no confequence whether the land to be 

 fward-cut is in crooked ridges, or ftraight, in flat 

 ridges, or in very high-raifed ridges; fuch as arc 

 fi-equently met with in Scotland. Be the furface 

 ever [o uneven, it does not fignify, as the cutting 

 wheels being all independent of one another, are 

 forced by their weights into every furrow or hollow. 



One Sward-cutter will cut as much ii>one day^af 

 fix ploughs will plow. 



The land may lie feveral months in winter after 

 being fward-cut, when there is no vegetation to 

 make the cuts grow together again before it is 

 plowed; but the fooner it is plowed afttr cutting, 

 the better, that it may have the benefit of all the 

 winter's froft, which makes it harrow better and 

 eafier at feed time. 



When the ground is harrowed, the harrows 

 ought to go with the waves that appear after plow- 

 ing, not againft them, as by that means they are lefs 

 •pt to tear up the furrows all cut into fquares. This 

 need only be attended refpefting the firft two tines, 

 as they are called, of the harrowing. 



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