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froQi general praftice ; for the fecond plowing 

 of a turnep-fallow is notacrofs but length-way. 

 But here, likewifc^ he adts from a degree of 

 jiecefiity ; for the firft plowing having been 

 given the full depth of the foil, there is no 

 whole ground left for tte plow to lay hold of 

 in crofs-plowing; and the flags, of courfe foul, 

 having lain fome months unmoved, are become 

 too tough to be cut readily with the coulter j 

 but would, of courfe, drive into rucks before 

 ihe plow. 



3. This loofe woolly flate of the turnep- 

 fallows is, however, fometimes leflened by har- 

 rowing them in the b.eginnipg of April ; and, 

 while the lays are Ihut up, throwing tur- 

 ners upon them for bullocks ; the treading of 

 which gives the foil a degree of firmnefs, and 

 renders the fecond plowing more tolerable. 



4. The teams, from the middle of May to 

 the beginning of July, are almoft wholly em- 

 ployed in plowing, harrowing, and manuring 

 the turaep- grounds : for the fecond plowing 

 finilhed, and the furface fmoothed with the harr 

 iow, a THIRD PLOWING IS given. 



5. This plowing, being well reduced with 

 the harrow, and the root-weeds coUeded, and 



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