28 FACT NUMBER ONE. 



and nut, planted three inches from the heel. These knives 

 enter the ground about one inch and scrape over the whole 

 surface, cutting up the grass and weeds the entire width of 

 the Drag. 



The Slobber Grass Drag, is designed to be employed on 

 the fallow ground ; and for the purpose of destroying that 

 grass, the thistle, &c. — this ground must be broken up soon 

 after these poison plants make their appearance, which in 

 40°, and upwards is about the 1st of May. This ploughing, 

 if well done, effectually covers up and desiroys the first or 

 spring growth of the grass, &c, and converts it to compost. 



The ploughing should be followed, forthwith, by a har- 

 row, for the purpose of levelling down the inequalities and 

 smoothing the surface for the knives of the Slobber Grass 

 Drag. Then the Drag is to follow the harrow immediately 

 after the offensive weeds make their appearances and while 

 they are yet tender and most easily destroyed. 



Now, it must be observed, that the ploughing, in ordina- 

 ry grounds, should be done, for several reasons, while the 

 earth is moist, but the Drag should be used only in dry, 

 warm weather, that the sun may wither up all that the 

 knives shear off; and this shearing off should be repeated 

 as often as the young Slobber Grass, thistles, &c, start up 

 and coat the ground. In the mean time, the ploughing and 

 harrowing should be repeated three times at least, before 

 seeding, and if the fourth time is added, the benefit will be 

 palpable to common observation. 



This kind of dressing, honestly and judiciously conducted, 

 will secure the field against all kinds of poison grass and 



