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Kis fccond year's lays having finiihcd hi^ 

 bullocks, and brought his ftock-cattle, and 

 hories, through the fore-part of the fummcr ; 

 and his firft year's lays having been mown, and 

 ready to receive his flock ; the farmer begins 

 to break up his '■' olland" for v;hear, by rice- 

 balking them as fleet as pofTible, fo as to 

 carry an even regular furrow ; embracing his 

 opportunity when the furface has bcenmoiftened 

 by a fummer fnower. 



In this rice-balked flate his fummerlies 

 remain until the wane of harvefl: •, when his 

 torn being chiefly in, and his horfes more at lei- 

 fure, he harrows, and afterwards plows his fum- 

 merlies acrofs the balks of the firfl plowing ; 

 bringing them up this feCond plowing the full 

 depth of thfc foil. 



On this plowing he fpreads his manure; 

 harrows, and immediately " fcalcs'* it in by 

 another fleet plowing. 



This third plowing has feveral good effeds : 

 it mixes, effedually, the foil and the manure, 

 __cuts off and pulverizes the upper furfaces of 

 the furrows of the fecond plowing ; and by 

 doing this, moft effedtually eradicates or fmo- 

 th<^rs fuch weeds as had efcaped the two 



former 



