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men to try, by accurate and repeated experi- 

 ments, whether the rolling of fallows, lays-, 

 corn-crops, and ilicadows, with a heaTy roller, 

 would, or would not, be eligible management, 

 on the Norfolk foil, 



IV. Cleansing plow-land.- — Tlie Nor- 

 folk method of cleaning fallows from " quicks" 

 and other root-weeds, is, when they arc dif- 

 cngaged from the foil, to draw them into " rirb- 

 ges"-^rovvs — ^with the fame hatrows with which 

 they were difengaged (neither horfe nor hand- 

 rakes being ev«r ufcd in the operation j. In this 

 cafe, the horfes, walking flowlyy ai=e driven 

 with reins-, the driver following the harrows, 

 and lifting tbem up, at ftated diftanees. The 

 " quicks" are thervihook into' heaps with fork?,- 

 aad either b^rnt in the clofey or carried off to^ 

 digeft in large heaps, as the v;eather fuits, or the 

 j-udcment of the farmer may determine. 



Jf it be right, in making a fallow, to burn or 

 carry c^ the roots of couch or other graflesy 

 this is perhaps as fmipi'e a procefs as can be 

 ilfed for the purpofe. 



It is a general idea tliat marl helps to cleanfe' 

 th^ foil from quicks. 



