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the most common and most effectual methods 

 employed. The thistle, the dock, and other 

 large weeds that appear among growing corns, 

 are either pulled with the hand, or cut with the 

 weed-hook. 



It is to be observed, however, that through 

 indi lence, or hurry of other business, they are 

 often allowed to escape ; and the farmer seldom 

 meddles with them, unless they are caught in 

 the very act of doing mischief. You will see 

 his servants, perhaps, employed in extirpating 

 thistles from his young corns ; whilst those that 

 grow by the sides of roads and ditches, or in 

 the neglected corners of the fields, are suffered 

 to remain unmolested. And as the rag- weed 

 most commonly infests the pasture-ground, it is 

 equally disregarded. All kinds of weeds ought, 

 if possible, to be destroyed before they run in- 

 to seed, but more especially those that carry 

 winged seeds. If these seeds shall be allowed 

 to ripen, they will be scattered by the winds 

 over the whole adjacent fields, and prove the 

 source of more extended mischief. 



SECT. r. WATERING. 



THIS method of improving land might, I 

 doubt not, be easily and advantageously em- 

 ployed in many parts of the county ; but has 

 seldom, I believe, been practised 



