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ral ? Is it not highly probable, that by ridg- 

 ing up a fallow fo as to referable the banks of 

 ditches, or as nearly as could be done with im- 

 plements and horfes, the foil would thereby 

 be meliorated ? 



It might certainly be done in this way : 

 with a common plow, gather up the foil into 

 four-furrow or fix-furrow ridges, and after- 

 wards, with a heavy double-mould-board plow 

 and a ftrong team, force up thewhole, by degrees, 

 into high, fharp, angular ridges ; which, in due 

 time, might be reverfed in a fimilar manner *. 



7 8. 



FEBRUARY 16. Laft night being uncom- 

 monly fevere, by wind froft and fnow, I roic 

 early this morning, to obferve the effects of fuch 

 unufual feverity upon the young lambs. 



I expected to have found them fhivering 

 and fetting up their backs, pinched through with 

 cold : inftead of which they were prancing 

 againfl the trees, and running races in a flack- 

 yard upon fome hay which the ewes had pulled 

 out, as if the fun had fhone out in the middle 



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* This would likewife gfvean opportunity of deepening 

 the foil ; and of forming, if practicable, a frefh fan. 

 (&eSoii., Vol. I ). 



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