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down l^y the means of a bruili or broom, made 

 of rough bufhes fixed to the front of the 

 '^ fickle-tow ;" or fore-tackle of the plow, be- 

 tween the wheels ; fo as to bear down the buck 

 without lifting the wheels of the plow from the 

 ground. To prevent this, Vv^hen the buck is 

 ftout, it is firft broken down by a roller, going 

 the fame v/ay as the plow is Intended to go. 

 A good plowman will tuck it m fo completely, 

 that fcarcely a ftalk can be feenl 



The furface is, fometimes, harrowed and 

 rolled after plowing : fometimes left rough ; 

 the former is perhaps the mofl eligible ma* 

 Jiagement. 



In either cafe, the foil remains in that f^ate 

 iintil after harveft, when it is harrowed and 

 taken up a full pitch, acrofs the warps. 



At feed-time, it is harrowed, — rolled,— 

 fowed, — and ufually gathered up into " narrow 

 work," in the mariner above defcribed. 



6. After summer-fallow. — The praflice 

 of fummer-fallowing feldoni occurs in this 

 Diftrict ; — turneps or buck being generally in- 

 troduced as a fubfiitute for it. However, when 

 land has been worn-down by cropping, and is 

 much run to *' beggary" and weeds, a " right- 

 ©ut fummerly" is efteemed by many judicious 

 P 2 hufbandmen 



