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Mr. Elkington's new mode of boring lands, if I 

 do not midake, is detailed in Young s Annals of 

 Agriculture. If the Colonel's lands that are over- 

 run with mofs be found, and will bear winter-feeding 

 on them, hay given there to cattle during that pe- 

 riod, will very much alter the nature of the herbage 

 and deftroy the mofs ; folding and feeding fheep on 

 it alfo will produce the fame efFeft, without the 

 trouble of ploughing; the weight of the cattle in 

 the winter would, in my opinion, be mofl: efficacious 

 in deftroying the texture of the mofs. The flime or 

 ooze of a river, overflown by the tide, I have in 

 many inflances feen tried as a manure, but every 

 where difcontinued on the account of the expence 

 and trouble of bringing it into a proper (late for 

 throwing abroad on the land j it has, however, been 

 of fervice: fmall quantities may be tried, from which 

 experience will be derived to juflify a perfeverance 

 or the contrary. The confufion the Colonel alludes 

 to in an account of afli planting, in vol. v. page 273, 

 at the top, arifes altogether from the wrong point- 

 ing the fentence; had it run thus, " with his fpade 

 digs the earth from the line on his right to the 

 diflance of twenty-one inches; on his left, to the 

 depth of twelve or fourteen inches,'* the whole 

 would be plain and intelligible. It is only faying, in 

 other words, that the labourer is to throw one half 

 of the ground taken out of the ditch on one bed, 



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