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graffy fide, about 3 inches thick. This done, let him turn over 

 the fod into the furrow, grafs-fidc up. By this, a canal of 3 or 4 

 inches will be left in the bottom of the furrow, fufHcient to dif- 

 charge a conliderable quantity of water, which will readily fubfide 

 into it. 



SCOTUS. 



TO TPIE CONDUCTOR OF THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



^ie?y as to taking the Tar out of Wool. 

 Sir, 



In Mr Naefmith's furvey of the llieep-counties of Scotland, 

 and report as to the ftate of flieep and wool, he mentions, tliat, at 

 Galafhiels, they have a method of taking the tar out of the falved 

 or fmeared wool, but he does not fay how it is done. This recipe, 

 in my opinion, would have been of more general ufe, if he had 

 given it, than all his report. If you, or any of your correfpon- 

 dents, know it, it would be of public utility to communicate it. I 

 have indeed heard of a recipe, but it is from uncertain authority, 

 and I fomewhat doubt of its permanent efficacy. 



A N. 



TO THE CONDUCTOR OF THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



On Emigrationy and the Means of preventing it. 

 Sir, 



As a fpirit of emigration to America is beginning to ILow it- 

 felf, I think it a duty to the public to point out by what means 

 the poorer a;id more ignorant were formerly kidnapped, or tre- 

 panned into it, and what way they were afterwards uled. 



Every thing fpecious was held out to thofe who would go to 

 America, by perfons interefted to get as many to emigrate as 

 polTible : they were inveigled into a contraci, or indenture, in 

 the Engliih. form, fufficiently binding and actionable by the laws 

 of America ; the terms of which were, that if they paid a certain 

 fum on landing, the indenture was void. It was, however, taken 

 care of they diould be perfons who were in no danger of paying 

 that fum : If they did not, they were to ferve the perlbn they in- 

 dented with, or his affigns, for a certain number of years. The 

 indenture was very plaufibly worded, to prevent fufpicion ; and 

 every legal form obferved. Upon their landing in America, how- 

 ever, and not p:'ying the fums mentioned in the indentures, they 



were 



