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especially if only pastured, so long as it would be 
otherwise desirable. Cutting annual weeds, before they 
seed, will destroy them. Perennials cut at proper peri- 
ods, may in a great degree be conquered. At any rate, 
their seeding may be prevented ; and the old stock de- 
stroyed by ploughing. But the abominable custom of 
suffering weeds, briars, &c. to grow in corners and 
about fences, will forever afford nurseries of these 
pests, which will keep up a succession of these nui- 
sances, in fields otherwise well cultivated.. The rotting 
of fences, articles of no small expence and labour, is 
not the least evil attending this negligent habit. The 
few farmers who are careful to destroy weeds in their 
own fields, are too often infested by those of their 
slovenly neighbours. In some parts of Europe there 
are laws which authorize those who destroy weeds 
in their own, to cut those in the adjacent fields of an 
obstinate or negligent neighbour, and obtain summary 
process from a magistrate, to reimburse the expence. 
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However unpalatable such laws might be here, they 
shew that the destruction of weeds is considered highly 
important, in countries where a good stile of agri- 
culture prevails. The truth is, that a farmer should be 
dung is left exposed to rain and sun; thrown about care- 
lessly in our yards, when the cattle do not drop it uselessly — 
in the fields. The heaps, which are often made in holes, or 
hollow places, where the stagnant water prevents putrefac- 
tion, are permitted to be poached and trodden by our cattle, 
or still more firmly pressed together, by loads haled over 
them. So that the airy cannot be admitted to produce a 
thorough ‘ermentation, and by this means to kill the seeds of 
the weeds, which are rumously destined to be the pests of our 
fields, and the destroyers oi our crops. 
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