J3S SOIL AND MANAGEMENT, 



fhire is very defe<ftive. The lands, in 

 general, are foul and out of tilth. 

 The leys are many of them covered with 

 fern and thiilles, a few years after they are 

 laid down to grafs, as if they had been, for 

 ages, in a ftate of commonage ; and, when 

 broken up, are equally difgraced by myriads 

 of feed weeds. 



This fqul ftate of the Soil is not more 

 owing to the fmall number of p lowing s 

 it receives, than to the defect, which has 

 been mentioned, in the conilrudlion of the 

 PLOW, and the injudicious manner of ufmg, 

 it. The plit, or plowflice, is carried too 

 wide ; the .fhare is narrow, and th? flern 

 of the plow without a wrefl to force open 

 the furrow. Hence, in plowing broken 

 ground, half the weeds are left uncut, and 

 the lower part of the foil left alm.oft wholly 

 iinftirred -, the moldboafd only fliding off 

 the upper part j thus covering up the un- 

 cut weeds, and giving the land the appearance 

 of laaving been plowed. The confequence 

 is, the weeds foon break through their thin 

 covering, and take again full poflefllon of 

 |he furface. I have feen turneps, after a 



fallow 



