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furrows from it, until the plough finiflict 

 in the middle, and confequently leaves an 

 open furrow there; by which means a 

 drain is made for the water, which carries 

 it off with a little opening by fpades:— 

 And afterwards laying the field down to 

 grafs, the land has a fall that keeps it dry. — 

 This method he follows, let the inequality 

 of the furface be what it may ; for if in 

 any place the land lies in a round, an ob- 

 long, or a ferpentine form, the plough 

 moves according to the wave of the land, 

 and always leaves a furrow in the loweft 

 part. 



This method of draining muft certainly 

 be mod effectual in land fo retentive of 

 water as to hold it on the fide even of 

 an open drain; and when, confequently, 

 the furface mufl: have a fall to carry it off. 



In the laying down to grafs, Mr. Dick" 

 fort is likewife very attentive to have it 

 done in a neat and mafterly manner. Of 

 hay feeds he fows 6 bufhels per acre, and 

 %lb. oi Dutch clover, and alfo about a tenth 

 of the whole of parfley, for the fake of his 

 iheep. In 1759, four acres were ploughed 

 and fown, half with buck wheat and half 

 with peafe, both were ploughed in when in 



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