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But in the modern system of avoiding spr 

 ploughings, with a care proportioned to the heavi- 

 ness of the soil, the main reliance is on frosts for 

 pulverization, and the object is to keep the surface 

 so gained, for the seed to be deposited in it. If 

 the weather was unfavourable for sowing in March, 

 or, being favourable, the breadth was too great to 

 allow the operation to be finished, and if weeds 

 appeared in the lands laid up for barley, it is to be 

 supposed that they were of course destroyed by the 

 scufHers ; and this month the sowing must be 

 finished., whether broad-cast or by drilling. In the 

 latter case, the directions relative to the right 

 breadth of the stitches should have been very at- 

 tentively executed. The young farmer must have 

 it carefully in memory, that as the summer ap- 

 proaches, with hot suns at intervals, any degree 

 of poaching, or daubing or trampling, become^ 

 more and more fatal, for the sun binds whatever 

 earth was touched in too wet a state. This cau- 

 tion has little to do with the occupiers of sand, 

 much of which wants adhesion to be given it by 

 art ; but here, again, if such land has been amplv 

 rlaycd, it will sometimes be apt to set, to bind with 

 heavy rains, so that the temper of it should alwav> 

 IK: examined before the teams at this season are 

 permitted to go on it. 



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Should always be put in before this season, and 

 riit-refore dinviinns arc omitted here ; but if, from 

 iome peculiar circumstances, the fanner wishes 



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