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have had much experience of foils, waich 

 bake with a quick fun after rain ; and 

 can eafily believe, that the finer they are 

 made, the worfe is the chance for a crop, 

 unlefs it is a hoeing one, fach as turnips or 

 beans, potatoes, d^c. which are not only 

 hoed, but will bear a harrowing in cafe of 

 rain, and plaiftering : Had this crop of 

 wheat been mine, I fliould have harrowed 

 it in the fpring thoroughly. 



For the purpofe of cleaning his fallows, 

 Mr. C?'owe invented a horfe-rakc, which he 

 finds of incomparable ufe : It rakes out 

 tv/itch and fuch trumpery very effectually.' 

 See plate III. fig. 2. 



Another moft excellent practice of huf- 

 bandry, and Vv^Mch 1 believe is quite pecu- 

 liar to this gentleman, is the moving all the 

 old hedges about his farm, which v/ere upoii 

 hills and high parts of the field, into hot-' 

 toms; an admirable thought, the propriety 

 of which mufi f Irike every one at the firft 

 mention : The ditches upon the higher parts 

 of the fields are of no ufe in draining, which 

 is one great endof ditches : And the hedges 

 in fuch fituations can only keep the lun and 

 wind from the land, which in wet foils, 

 and all clays, is a very great difadvantage : 

 But by making them in the bottom.s and 

 hollows, the land is neccffarily drained ; the 

 expence of the ufual drains in fuch places 

 faved : the fun and wind have a free courfe 



