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numerous pieces the root-weeds, every Lit of 

 which grows ; consequently you would do as much 

 mischief in one instance as good in another; 

 but, being turned up very rough in large clods, 

 the sun bakes them, and completely kills the roots. 

 It is absurd to reason against experience ; there- 

 fore, if a farmer tries the spring tillage, and finds, 

 contrary to expectation, that it fills his lands with 

 pernicious weeds, instead of killing them, he cer- 

 tainly should desist. But many persons know, from 

 experience, that such management has destroyed 

 seed-weeds, and proved no impediment to the de- 

 struction of root ones, by successive attention 

 through the burning parts of the summer ; not by 

 leaving the roots in possession of large clods, but 

 by extracting them. This is the case with the 

 grasses, which are among the worst. Docks, in- 

 deed, can be no way destroyed, but by letting them 

 grow 7 , and then digging them up and carrying them 

 clear away from the land. 



It should, however, be admitted (and it is a 

 grand objection to summer fallows) that if the 

 summer proves wet, root-weeds will not be de- 

 stroyed, whatever the system of tillage may be : 

 that of clods will no more kill them than any other 

 method, except picking them up by women, &c. 

 following every machine by which the tillage may 

 be given. 



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Wheat, barley, and oats, that are drilled wide 

 enough for horse-hoeing, must be well attended to 



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