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in preparing for barley, the fward-cutter excels 

 a roller of any kind, in reducing the large hard clods 

 in clay land, occafioncd by a fuddcn drought, after 

 fe being plowed too wet ; and it is likcwife very 

 proper for reducing fuch clay land, when under a 

 fummer-fallow. In this operation the fward-cut- 

 ter is greatly to be preferred to the cutting roller, 

 likewife mentioned by Mr. Young in one of his 

 tours, from its wheels being all dependent one on 

 another, fo that whtm one is thrown out by a ftone, 

 three or four muil fhare the fame fate : befides, the 

 cutting roller has but feven wheels in fix feet, and 

 the fward-cutter has fix in four feet three inches, at 

 nine inches diftant ; and, if neceffary, may hare 

 xhem io near as fix inclies. ■ 



After old grafs-ground is c\jt crofe with the 

 fward-cutter, ^od plowed, it has a very uncom- 

 mon and worklike appearance, from each fquare, 

 turned over by the plough, being raifed up an inch 

 or two at the fide lafl moved by the earth-board j 

 fo that the field, when finiihed, is all prettily waved, 

 and refembles a piece of water when blown on by 

 a gentle breeze. By this means a very great deal 

 of the land's furface is expofed to the froftj and 

 other influences of die air> which cannot fail to 

 have a good effeft on it. 



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