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bull on the near fide of the harrow, to take the Grafs much better 

 than that. 



78. But the worft ground to harrow of all others is new broken 

 Land, the parts of its furrows being commonly fo faft knit to- 

 gether by the roots of the grafs, that though great charge and 

 trouble be afforded in the harrowing, yet after all it will notfo 

 difperfe the Corn, but that it will come up as it fell, thick and in 

 ranks between the furrows, and fcarce any where elfe. To pre- 

 vent thefeinconveniencies, the Ingenious Mr, Sacheverel, late of 

 Bolfcot, deceafed, contrived a way of howing the earth from the 

 turf as foon as a little dryed, thereby firft laying his ground even 

 and then fowing it; by which means his feed not only fell and 

 came up equally difperft in all parts alike, but he found that a 

 quantity confiderably lefs, did this way ferve the turn. Which 

 Experimentht often made with good approbation, the charge of 

 bowing not exceeding that of harrowing, which without it muft 

 be great, whereas after it, one crofs tine covers the Corn well e- 

 nough. , 



79. After harrowing, if it hath been fo dry a time, that the 

 ground has rifen in clods that cannot be broken with harrows, they 

 commonly do it with a beetle, or big flick ' But a much quicker 

 way is that I met with about Biffeter by a weighty Roll, not cut 

 round, but octangular, the edges whereof meeting with the clods, 

 would break them effectually, and with great expedition. I was 

 fhewed alfo at Bolfcot another uncommon Roll, invented by the 

 fame Mr. Sacheverel above-mentioned, cut neither fmooth nor to 

 angles, but notched deep and pretty broad, after the manner of 

 a Tejfella or Lattice, fo that the protuberant parts remained al- 

 moft as bi'g as the foot of a Horfe, by which being large and weigh- 

 ty, he could fo firmly prefs his light Land fubjeft to Quich-grafs 

 and other weeds, and fo fettle the roots of the Corn, that it would 

 come up even and well ; whereas if it had been left hollow it 

 would certainly have been choaked, and came to little ; He aflert- 

 ed, that it alfo excelled a fmooth Roll, efpecially if the Seafon 

 proved dry and windy, in that, when a Field is rolled fmooth, 

 the wind is apt to blow the Earth from the Corn, whereas by this 

 the ground is laid fo uneven and full of holes, like Chequer -work* 

 that what the wind blows from the ridges, ftill falls into the hollows 

 between them, and on the contrary gives the Corn the better root. 



80. I have 



