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plough of coulters, or with a ploughing harrow ; so x 

 that the surface may all be cut or torn : this opera- 

 tion is on principles directly contrary to the common 

 idea of rolling in autumn, which is done with de- 

 sign not only of levelling for the scythe, but also of 

 pressing the surface as much as possible, for which 

 the heaviest rollers are chosen, until some are 

 worked that require six horses. 



BURNET. 



Observe, not to let any cattle pasture your burnet 

 fields after mowing ; for the greatest peculiarity of 

 this plant is to afford a full bite in March ; and if 

 you leave it six or eight inches high in October, 

 you will find more the beginning of March, and 

 in possession of the leaves it had in autumn ; for 

 the winter's frosts have not much effect on it. 

 Upon this caution, therefore, depends much of the 

 advantage of burnet: some who have found fault 

 with it, and asserted that it is unprofitable, have 

 fed off the after-grass in autumn bare, and let their 

 sheep and cattle get into it in 'winter. It is then no 

 wonder the burnet does not answer the character 

 given of it by others, who have managed in a dif- 

 ferent manner, 



SAINFOIN ROUENS. 



Sainfoin does not, like clover and lucern, pro- 

 duce two several cuts in one season, but the ronens 

 yield great store, of a salubrious and highly nutri- 

 tious diet, for cattle of every kind, As the sainfoin 



rouens 



