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latter moft efpecially : not only becaufe their 

 plow and team are ill-calculated for flubbom 

 work ; but lel1:, in breaking up the foil at a 

 time when it is too dry to be cut clean with the 

 iliare, it fhould rife in clods, and thereby dif- 

 turb the " pan ;" which, upon every occafion, 

 -is held facred (fee Soil). 



Jnftances of the mifchiefs of deep-plowing 

 are related : one of them by an old, and mofl 

 judicious hufbandman, to whofe opinion the 

 greateft deference and attention is due *. His 

 men having, in his abfcnce, plowed part of a 

 clofe when it was too dry, it broke up in large 

 thick clods ; the pan, which adhered to the foil, 

 being of courfe brought up to the furface. 

 He immediately forefaw the efFcdl which, 

 I have not a doubt, followed. This patch, 

 from -no other apparent circumftance whatever, 

 could nor, with all his fl^iil and induftry, be 

 brought to bear a crop of any kind equal to that 

 of the reil of the clofe, for fix or feven years 

 afterward. The crops on this part were uni- 

 formly, and obvioufly, not only foul, but bad ; 

 and this, notvvithftanding an extraordinary al- 

 lowance of manure and tillage were, from time 

 to time, beflowed upon it. 



• Mr. Arthur Bayfield, of Antingham. 



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