144 SOIL AND MAN^AGEIMENT. 



For SKIRTING, the common fhare is 

 ufed ; but made, perhaps, fomewhat wider 

 than when it is ufed in the ordinary ope- 

 ration of plowing. 



in this mode of ufing the plow, little 

 more than half the fward is pared off; 

 turning the part raifed, upon a line of un- 

 moved turf; as in the operation of ribbings 

 rice -balking, raftering, or half plowing* 

 The paring of turf in this cafe is from one 

 to two inches thick, on the coulter mar- 

 gin, decreafing in thicknefs to a thin fea- 

 ther edgCy by which it adheres to the un- 

 moved Ryard. 



Having lain fomjs time in this flate, to 

 rot or grow tender, it is pulled to pieces 

 with rough harrQivs, drawn acrofs the linesl 

 of turf; and, having lain in this rough 

 ftate, until it be fufficiently dry, it is bruifed 

 with a rolkr, and immediately harrowed, 

 with lighter harrows ; walking the horfcs 

 one wav, and trottinij; them the other : ta 

 iliake the earth out more. effed:ually from 

 among the roots of the grafs ; going over 

 the ground again, and perhaps again, ac- 

 cording to tke feafon, and the judgement of 



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