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the hill, he had his men cut a trench two feet 

 deep, and in this he put in about six inches of 

 clay. Then a strip of soil on the upper side of 

 this trench was thrown into it, thus leaving 

 another trench, side by side, and of the same 

 depth of the first ; and clay was put in this 

 also. Thus the whole hill-side was regularly 

 trenched over, and an artificial clay subsoil 

 that would hold water and prevent manure 

 from leaching away, put under the dry bar- 

 ren place. The result was most favorable ; 

 the grass no longer dies out, but remains 

 green and growing throughout the summer. 

 But in the main such land is dealt with as we 

 do with the shiftless poor, giving a little at a 

 time, and making it go as far as possible. In 

 the first place, the manures used should contain 

 much vegetable matter, and not be light and 

 heating in their character. That f.-om the cow 

 stable is specially valuable. Decayed leaves, 



