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ufually preferred a waggon ladder, which does 23. 



not cover more than four or five flags at once; 



and to finim this bufinefs more completely, he 



always carries a fort of broom in his own hand, 



when overlooking the work-people ; in order 



to cover more effectually any part which may 



be paitially miffed. 



The advantages held out. There is a faving 

 of about a bufhel and a half of feed; which, 

 when wheat is fix fhiilings or upwards, is alone 

 an equivalent to the extra expence of dibbling. 



The rolling and treading is efleemed highly 

 ferviceable to the light lands of this country. 



The edges of the flags being intimately united 

 by the rolling and the trampling, and the re- 

 maining fiffures being filled up by the harrow, 

 the graffes are thereby thought to be kept un- 

 der ; and fhould feed-weeds appear in the fpring, 

 the hoe has free admifiion between double row 

 and double row, to extirpate them; an opera- 

 tion, however, which I underftand feldom takes 

 place. 



The feed being wholly buried in the body of 

 the flag, there is no " under-corn" ; the plants 

 are uniformly vigorous ; the flraw, collectively, 

 is confequently ftouter, and the grain more 

 even, than that which is ufually produced from 



(owing 



