J40 SOIC AND MANAGEMENT. 



freeing the foil from large hard detached 

 ftones has been introduced into pracftice : 

 namely, that oi finking them below the foil; 

 fo as to give free range for the plow, above 

 them. This is done by digging pits be- 

 neath them: an operation, however, which 

 is fomewhat dangerous, and requires a 

 degree of care and circumfpediion. 



Cleansing soil from seed weeds. 

 I muil not omit to mention, here, an in- 

 cident of pra<fl;ice, which was related to 

 me, in this Diflrid, by a friend of the 

 farmer in whofe pracflice it occurred. A 

 field, particularly fuhjeB to %vild oatSy was 

 eile6tually freed from them, by dunging it 

 ^ell, while under fdlow, and by working 

 it afterwards, fo as to mix the foil and dung 

 intimately together. The confequence of 

 this was a full crop of oats j which was 

 mown for hay ; and the foil ever after freed 

 from thefe troublefome weeds. 



This incident, though not, perhaps, ac- 

 curately ftated (it is net probable that, with 

 the imperfect tillage of this country, every 

 individual feed . fhould be brought at once 

 iiito vegetation) fh^ws the utility of 



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