Cultivation of Graft Land.- Removing Objlnictions to the Scythe. 



it, as is commonly the cafe in this as well as many other grafs diftricts, is not lefs- 

 flovenly than reprehenlible. It would be much more eafy, and far lefs expenfive, 

 to feparate them during the time the manure is turning over and preparing for its 

 application: and thus the trouble, expenfe, and occafional neglect of having them 

 afterwards picked off^ would be avoided. When gathered up in the Melds, they 

 ihould not, as is too commonly the cuflom, be thrown together into heaps on the 

 grounds, but be wholly removed, either into the gate-ways or other fuitable places; 

 as, when left in the heaps, they are not only liable to be again difperfed on the 

 lands, but injure them by their remaining and bringing up coarfe grafles. 



Cattle Dunghills. Thefe are always necefiary to be fpread out as foon as the 

 work can be conveniently performed after the (lock has been removed ; as the 

 longer they arc fuffered to remain, the greater the injury the fward fuftains by 

 being made tender in the places they cover, and their preventing the natural graf- 

 fes from riling, as well as bringing up coarfe plants, in fome cafes, afterwards. 

 In fpreading the heaps, care mould be taken to break them well, and difperfe them 

 as evenly on the furface as poflible : as, where this is not done, from becoming 

 hard they are apt to impede the fcythe. 



Ant-hills. Where grafs-hufbandry is perfectly underftood, and the lands kept 



under a proper ftate of management, hills of this fort are feldorn or ever met with ; 



it is only where the lands have been neglected, or conducted under an improper 



fyflem of cultivation, that they prevail either in meadow or pafture lands. From 



the greater degree of drynefs in the latter fort of land, they are more frequently 



found in them, efpecially where the fward is old and mofTy. Under circumftances 



of the latter kind it may, in fome cafes, be a more advifable practice to break up 



the land altogether, than endeavour to remove the hills and deftroy the infects, 



But in many infiances they may be removed without this trouble, and the land be 



reftored to the ftate of good fward. Two methods have been chiefly depended 



upon in bringing thefe forts of land into proper order ; which are thofe of cutting 



the hills over in crofs directions, and hollowing out the internal mouldy part, and 



then laying the turfs down again, in an even manner, over the places where 



the hills flood, the earthy materials being afterwards chopped fmall and 



fpread evenly over the la*id ; and of paring them wholly off even with the furface 



of the ground, and depofiting them in heap*, in proper places, that they may rot 



and decay, foasto become in a ftate of fine mould, and be mixed up with lime in 



the proportion of a third or fourth, according to the circumftances of the, land, and 



then fpread out thinly over the fame ground. Both thefe modes may, probably, 



