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^. Stb. What materials do you find bed and 

 moll lafting for covered drains or land ditches? 



A. Ragged ftones or brickbats, or rather flat 

 Hones, two fet on edge eight or ten inches afunder, 

 and a third over; and where thefe cannot be had, 

 black-thorn or other bufhes. Some perfons ufe 

 turf with the grafs fide downwards, leaving a hol- 

 low below for the water, 



^ 'jth. What are the kinds of wood which 

 you have found from experience to thrive beft on 

 bleak barren foils, cold fwampy bogs, and black 

 moory ground ? 



A. Scotch firs on bleak barren foils, efpecially 

 in a northern afped. On cold fwampy bogs, the 

 Dutch willow will do great things; but afii will fuc- 

 cced better, and is far more ufeful and profitable. 



^. Btb. What are your methods of raifing lu- 

 ccrn, fainfoin, and burnet; on what lands do you 

 find them to anfwer beft:; and what is the average 

 produce? 



A. Lucern fucceeds beft: in drills one foot afun- 

 der,* and kept clean by a fmall plough drawn by 



• We apprehend a diflance of at leaft eighteen inches would be better, and oc- 

 cafion lefs damage to the plants by the horfe going between the rows. From 

 various experiments made to afcertain the beft diftance between the nv/i of lucern, 

 the fineft and heavicil crops have been from rows two fett apttt. 



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