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as to allow opportunity to destroy the vegetative quality of all 

 the seeds that are contained in it. Therefore, it is advised 

 that heaps of manure, intended for sowed fields,6hould be shov- 

 elled over two or three times in a summer ; by which means, 

 most, or all of the seeds contained in the heaps, will vegetate 

 and be destroyed. But when land is laid down for grass, this 

 precaution is not necessary, because tillage weeds will not 

 flourish 60 as to do much damage in grass lands. Or if low 

 ground hay has been used by itself in feeding the young part 

 •f the stock, as it often is, the dung that is made of that, 

 •hould be laid on the dryest parts of the farm ; for should 

 the seeds sprout and come up, they will not be likely to pros- 

 per, as the soil does not suit their nature, being mostly aquatics. 

 Marie, mud, ashes, lime, soot, sea-weeds, &c. having no seeds, 

 will not propagate weeds, unless by vivifying latent seeds in 

 the soil. 



Another thing which is indispensably necessary to prevent 

 the abounding of weeds, ia to suffer no weeds, either in gar- 

 dens or in tillage lands, to ripen their seeds in autumn, and 

 scatter them out upon the ground. 



Before the seeds of the weeds are ripened, the prudent hus- 

 bandman, if he has neglected his duty thus far, will go over his 

 grounds and destroy all the weeds that appear. If there should 

 happen to be considerable quantities of them, they should be 

 piled in heaps, in the borders of the fields, and a little earth 

 throwti on them ; in which situation they will ferment and pu- 

 trify, and become good heaps of manure the succeeding year. 



The objection to the labor of doing' this, is answered by the 

 obnsideration, that it will save them more labor in future, in 

 subduing the weeds, after the ground is filled' with them, be- 

 sides procuring them the advantage of having much better 

 crops. 



Another preventative of the increase of weeds, is burning 

 the stubble as it stands after reaping. On land that isdesign- 

 ad to be sowed the next year, this^ good husbandry. For it 



