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in view, so that no water can lodge in any part> 

 however wet the weather. The old water- furrows 

 in the wheat- fields are also to he examined, a& well 

 ns those in the fallows ploughed in autumn. If 

 they have been filled at any place, by the .crumb- 

 ling in of the moulds after frosts, or by the pas- 

 sage of moles, or other accidents, they must be 

 cleaned out. Too much attention cannot be given 

 to keep the lands quite free from stagnant water. 



MANURE GLIASS-LANDS. 

 This is the proper season for laying on several 

 sorts of manure, such as soot, coal-ashes, wood- 

 ashes, lime, malt-dust, &c. and in general, those 

 that are spread in too small quantities to require 

 a whole winter's rain's to wash them in. The. use 

 of these manures, and other light dressings in Fe- 

 bruary, is very beneficial ; but, throughout the 

 management of purchased manures, experiments 

 should be formed for a year or two, before the 

 practice is extended, to see which, at a given price, 

 wrll suit the land best. , Without this precaution, 

 a farmer may probably expend large sums of money 

 to little purpose. Nor would I advise him to trust 

 to the mere appearance of the effect soon after the 

 manuring ; for some of them, particularly soot and 

 -malt-dust, will shew themselves after the first heavy 

 showers, in a finer green than the rest of the field ; 

 but the proof of the effect does not arise from fine 

 greens, but from weight of hay; for I have myself 

 found from experience, that the latter is not always 



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