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purfued to bring this field into proper tilth is as 

 follows, and I believe a better cannot be devifed. 



As foon as harveft is well over, give the field a 

 elean ploughing in the ufual manner. Dragging 

 and harrowing at this feafon can fcldom be of any 

 ufe; the earth is generally too adhelive to part with 

 the roots which bind it together. As foon as the 

 ploughing is finiflicd, give it another directly acrofs 

 the firl^ ; but this muft be performed in a manner 

 Very different from the former. Begin at the far- 

 ther end of the field, and with one bout of the 

 plough, make the furrows as deep, and the ridge 

 as narrow and as high as may be. Upon the out- 

 ward edge of the outward furrow enter the plough- 

 ftiare, and with another bout of the plough form 

 a fecond ridge, and fo proceed through the whole 

 field. It will then lie in deep open fyxrows, and 

 high narrow ridges, and confequently expofed to 

 the influences of the atmofphere in the largeft ex- 

 tent of fuperficies that is polfible. If the winter 

 fhould prove ever fo wet, the ridges will Bb kept 

 dry by the open furrows; but if it fliould prove 

 fevere, the froft will penetrate quite through the 

 ridges, and impregnate almoft the whole of the foil 

 they contain. If in the latter end of February, or 

 any part of March, the weather fhould be dry and 

 open, the ridges may be drawn down by the drags^ 



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