3i6 SOILS AND SOIL PROCESSES. 2g. 



The fecond year ih&JJjoots rife weak ; and 

 the roots thcmfelves feldom furvive the third 

 year. 



In a very few years more the roots are 

 found entirely rotten ; thus becoming a 

 fourcc of nutriment to the crop, inftead of 

 remaining a nuifance. 



If a thicket or a border, whofe /ward is 

 nearly loft, be treated in this manner, rub- 

 bifh of every kind lliould be raked off, a few 

 GRASS SEEDS fcattcred on, and the furface 

 run over with a roller, as a preparation for 

 the fithe. 



This mode of extirpation is not applica- 

 ble to the SLOE-THORN alone ; but to the 

 OAK, the ASH, the white-thorn, the ma- 

 ple, and every other tree and Ihrub to which 

 it has been applied, — the furze and the 

 bramble excepted. 



Gen. Observ. It is, I believe, a univerfal 

 practice, when woodland is given up to 

 HUSBANDRY, to take up all t\\t roots, large or 

 fmall, at an expence, perhaps, equal to half 

 the value of the land ; which, in this cafe, is 

 iubjciftcd immediately to the plow : altoge- 

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