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fers than large oxen, and is certainly capable of agri- 

 cultural improvement. If the proprietor of this fort 

 of padure can prevail upon himfelf to lofe a little 

 grafs, he will do well to winter-fallow the banks 

 upon the borders of the field, and get the mould in 

 a proper degree of tilth to be fpread about the land 

 in May or June. It ought to be well drained by 

 deep narrow gutters, dug in the fame feafon of the 

 year, thirty-three feet afunder, omitting every other 

 drain, which fliould be dug up two years after, and 

 by this method a frefli covering every two years will 

 foon bring forward this land to feconds. It is now 

 valued at 3I. per ftatute acre. 



No. IV. or the fourth clafs of paflure, Is alfo old 

 grazing land lying in the fame kind of pieces, and 

 nearly of the fame quality as the third clafs, but with 

 the material diftinguifliing difference of lying in large 

 wide ridges, that indicates its having been once in 

 tillage, although it may perhaps have been a century 

 fmce; and being thus injudicioufly laid to grafs, it 

 never can, in that unlevel (late, arrive to perfeftio;i. 

 The befl purpofe to which this fort of land can be 

 applied is, to take off half a dozen or half a fcore 

 crops of wheat after wheat from it, and then lay it 

 down entirely level to white clover, fown with a crop 

 of barley ; and in a few years this land might be 

 brought forward by the ufual methods of good huf- 

 bandry into thirds; which is one degree of perfcftion 

 it never could have obtained in its original uneven 



(late. 



