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try, ought to be tried, at least, by 

 those who have deep soils, clear of 

 rocks and other obstacles. Trials 

 should be made of the advantage 

 of ploughing tlat land in ridges ; 

 and whether ridge ploughing will 

 not secure grain from destruction 

 by winter frosts. Attempts should 

 be more extensively made to raise 

 winter wheat, which is the most 

 valuable of all grain. We should 

 endeavour to tind out the best 

 steeps for grain and other seeds, to 

 quicken their vegetation, and to 

 secure them against insects and 

 smut ; — what are the best quanti- 

 ties of seed for sowing in ditTerent 

 grounds ; — whether sowing seeds 

 with a drill be not the best method 

 when horse hoeing is not applied ; 

 when is the best time for sowing of 

 winter grain ; — whether good peat 

 and marie be not to be found in plen- 

 ty in various parts of the country,and 

 the advantage of marling,and sow- 

 ing peat ashes ; — whether drained 

 swamps are not the most profitable 

 of all our lands ; — whether new 

 dung or old will produce the best 

 crop, and whethercompost will not 

 do better than either ; — how lime 

 will answer as a manure in our hot 

 summers — on what kind of soil it 

 is most serviceable, &ic. &c. 



But, in making experiments, 

 great care should be taken that we 

 do not draw a conclusion too has- 

 tily ; certainly we must not do it 

 from one single trial. For a thing 

 may answer well at one time,owing 

 to the peculiarity of a season, or to 

 some indiscernible circumstances, 

 which will not at another. If men 

 allow themselves to be too sanguine 

 ^nd sudden in their conclusions 



iVom single experiments, they will 

 rather embarrass and paislead, than 

 increase agricultural knowledge. 



But if improvements be wished 

 for, experiments should be care- 

 fully recorded. If this be neglect- 

 ed, husbandry must be expected 



I to remain in its present low state. 

 For want of such recoids, a great 



I deal of useful knowledge has been 

 already lost. Though many have 

 made experiments, by which they 

 have satisfied themselves, but few 

 have recorded them. The exper- 

 imenters themselves have forgot- 

 ten them, to such a degree, that 

 they are apt to misrepresent them, 

 when they attempt to relate them. 

 And too many sufTer useful discov- 

 eries to die with them. To pre- 

 vent these evils, the forming of 

 societies in various parts of the 

 country might be of great use. 



F. 



FAGGOT, a bunch of bushes, 

 or limbs of trees, bound together 

 by a withe. Faggots for fuel 

 are cut to the length of about two 

 feet. In many parts of this coun- 

 try, the scarcity of fire wood makes 

 it expedient that farmers should 

 no longer go on in the practice of 

 burning such materials on the 

 ground. They should preserve 

 them in faggots for fuel in their 

 houses. They will serve to heat 

 stoves ; and for heating ovens 

 there is no better wood. 



FALL, of the year. 



In a country where the springs 

 are backward, as in the northern 

 parts of New- England, farmers 

 should do all they can in autumn, 



