WOODS AND COPSES. 37* 



WOODS AND COPSES. 



PREPARATION OF THE GROUND. 



THOSE grounds intended for Oak Copfes from 

 feeds, and which have been under fallow the pre- 

 ceding feafon, may flili require a furrow previous 

 to that for lowing the feeds. This will be efpe- 

 cially necefiary, if the furface be much battered 

 and flatted down by the winter rains. 



Lands intended for this purpofe, which have 

 been under a crop of oats the preceding feafon, 

 in order to rot and reduce the fward, and which 

 are lying in the furrow which they received after 

 the removal of the crop, ought now to be crofs- 

 ploughed, as the beft means for reducing and me- 

 liorating the foil. It may lye in that (late, and 

 be harrowed down in March. But if the land 

 has been under a rotation of corn and green crops ; 

 has been laft feafon under oats, and has received 

 a furrow after the feparation of the crop from the 

 ground ; and if it remain tender and clean ; it will 

 require nothing more till it receive the feed fur- 

 row in April. If, however, crops of vegetables, 



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