^ome sells, which lie gently slopinor, are so wet as to need 

 r^gingf. It IS not best to make the ridges directly up and 

 -dovvn the slope, nor horizontally , but on a medium between, 

 both But when t^ie land will admit of it, the ridges should lie 

 north and south. 



Tt is no bad practice to lay lands to grass in ridges or beds, 

 ^or too much wetness isapt to hurtgrass lands, as weU-as lands 

 tor tillage, whether they are used for mowing or -pasturage. In- 

 the former the grass will be too sour to- make a good hay ; and 

 m the latter, not only the grass will be bad, but the soil so soft 

 as not well to bear the tread of cattle. It has been found that 

 better grass and a greater quantity may be produced in this 

 way. Nor will the soil so soon become hard and bound 



Itis practised by some to split the hills with a lio-ht plough, in 

 autumn, after a crop of corn; even though the ground be not 

 seeaed till the following, spring. . One side of a row of hills is 

 ploughed off with- one furrow, and the other side ploughed off 

 the contrary way by another furrow, so as to form m'oderate 

 ridges in the intervals. It is performed with less than half the 

 expense of plain ploughing ; and nearly the whole of the sur- 

 face is either taken up or -covered. It has been said by Eu- 

 ropean writers, that land should be. ploughed immediately 

 after a crop of corn, to prevent the stubs from robbing the soil 

 of Its jmces. However this may be, the ploughing is perhaps 

 as useful as other autumnal ploughings ; and where dung has 

 been put in the holes, it mixes it with the soil ; not to mention 

 the burying of some of the stubs and leaves of the corn, which, 

 vrjil contribute something towards enriching the soil. 



The following maxims respecting the proper depth of 

 ploughing are from the Code of Agriculture : 



1. The depth to which land ought to beplouo-hed, must 

 first be regulated by the depth of the soil. On "these soils 

 more especially, on a rocky substratum, the ploughing must ' 

 Becessarily be shallow. 



2. The depth ought likewise to depend on the means ofim% 



