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or grafly ftubbles, are very beneficial, and fuch land 
is ufually broken up in that way. Lime is too ex- 
penfive for manure; nor, from two or three experi- 
ments that have come under my obfervation, does 
it feem worth attention, if that were not the cafe. 
Soot has been tried on fainfoin to great advantage, 
but it isnot to be procured in fufficient quantity for 
any confiderable practice. Marl has been formerly 
ufed in different parts of the diftrict; a pit has been 
opened of late years in the neighbourhood of North- 
leach, to the great improvement of fome adjoining 
grafs grounds. Folding fheep is very little prac- 
tifed or approved of. The obfervations in the 
Annals of Agriculture on that pra€tice, are well 
deferving of attention. 
Watering meadows has long been practifed in 
this diftriét; there is, probably, no confiderable 
quantity of land capable of that improvement, with- 
out interfering with the mills, where it is not done. 
Implements of hufbandry.—The waggon of this dif. 
tri& is defcribed by Mr. Marfhall, and by him al- 
lowed to be the beft in the kingdom for hufbandry 
ufes. The teftimony of Mr. Drake, given to the 
Worcefterfhire furveyor, tends to confirm that idea. 
The carts are very good for hauling out dung, but 
not fo well calculated for road work and other ufes. 
The ploughs are long in the beam, with one wheel; 
they are rather improved in their conftruction of 
late. Four horfes, or four or five oxen, the moft 
ufual 
