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moft mafterly manner, of a uniform depth, and as fleet as 



poflible, fo as to plough the land perfedly clean. 



The greater part of the adjoining parifli of WIMBISH, 

 is found to confift of a wet heavy foil, upon a red tough, 

 and a blue chalky clay. 



The lower parts of the fields here are uniformly found to 

 poffefs a more tradlable foil than that of the upper parts ; 

 and here a material improvement, though at a confiderablc 

 expence, is made by mixing the oppofite foils of each field 

 together, thus mutually correding their natural defeds by 

 rlleeving the red loamy land from its tendency to bake and 

 cruft after heavy rains, or frefli ploughing, at the fame time 

 by rendering the ftaple of the loofer foils more compa6l, the 

 flraw becomes Ihortened ; the quality of the grain and pulfc 

 is very much improved, and the quantity is invariably in- 

 creafed per acre. 



The mod approved mode of hollow draining in this parifli 

 is to fill the drains with flrayv only, bulhing the ends of the 

 drains and the leaders to the outfals: the fmaller drains are 

 made twenty-fix inches, the leaders thirty inches deep, which 

 together, and at a rod apart, will coft about two guineas 

 per acre. 



Horfe-hoes or fkims, of various dlmenfions, and equally 

 applicable to ridge, or flat work, are found to anfvver par- 

 ticularly well for cleaning the fallows ; which being generally 

 ploughed in three feet ridges, the feed of wheat, beans, bar- 

 ley, a]nd oats, is frequently put in by hand-barrows or dril- 

 ling machines, fowing every other furrow or otherwife at 

 pleafure, and cofting per acre. 



An Ingenious farmer in this parifh has conftruded, and 

 fixed to the tail of his plough a drilling box, which moves 

 in a diredl line after the plough, and is a(51ed upon by the 

 wheel which fupports it to difcharge the feed, and this is 



N a done 



