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To the big end of this harrow, you (hall fixe a ftrong rope 

 with a Swingle-tree with TreatSjCollefjand Harne(re,andonc 

 Horfcis fully fi.fficient to draw it round about the Paftureor 

 Me?dov.-ro with this Harrow you fhill harrow the ground ab. 

 orcr, and it will not oncly break all the hard clots to a very hue 

 duft, but dlfo difperfe them and drive [hem into the grci;no, 

 and give fuch a comfort fo the tender rr/ots of the young grai!'-;, 

 then nev.'ly fpnnsins;, that it will double and treble the if - 

 crcaf- And for mine own paJt, this expeiicnce 1 my iclt nivc 

 fecn upon an exTca-nc barren Pafture ground in ' 'iddhfcx, 

 whcrejione cf thclc good mculu.5 or (oylcs could bz got s but 

 ths Husbandman was fain to take all ihe rubbifh&co^nfc earth 

 even to the very fw^epings of his yard, and for want of en nij^h of rubbifi! i- 

 thereof to take any ordinary earth he could ca and with ii he fwccp n^^,.. 

 dreft the ground in fuch fort as 1 have now laft Ih jwtd you, and 

 this being done in Mp- ,7, he bad in J/.'v. following as good 

 Meadow as could bee wifhc for, and was the fi ft ^.ea- 

 dowlfdw cut downe in all that Country : from whcx.i 



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A paffe in Gervasr Miirk/iaiii's • ■ fnrirhmriit of the W'cilil of Kent" 



