*4 OF RAISING WOOD 



the expence to bring it into order for 

 (owing or planting, than making the holes 

 for planting as before directed ; and the 

 trees will thrive much better than when 

 the coarfe grafs and heath are plowed in, 

 imlefs the ground is worked until they are 

 quite rotten, which would require a good 

 deal of labour and expence to no pur- 

 pole. 



WHERE there is poor land, that has 

 growed corn for fome years, and is 

 designed for planting, plowing will 

 be of great u(e, and a very profitable way 

 of working it ; the field may, at a fmall 

 expence, be put into good condition, 

 which will promote the growth, fuccour 

 and encourage the trees for many years, 

 even until their own foliage becomes a 

 manure to them ; and a crop of under- 

 wood my be expected. 



PLOW the ground in autumn immedi- 

 ately as fbon as the corn is off, and let it ly 

 all the winter to mellow ; plow it again 



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