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afterwards laying the iield down to grafs, 

 the land has a fall that keeps it dry. This 

 method he follows, let the inequality of the 

 furface be what it may ; for if in any place 

 the land lies in a round, an oblong, or a fer- 

 pentine form, the plough moves according 

 to the wave of the land, and always leaves 

 a furrow in the loweft part. 



This method of draining muft certainly 

 be moil effectual in land fo retentive of wa- 

 ter as to hold it on the fide even of an open 

 drain ; and when, confequently, the furface 

 muit have a fall to carry it off. 



In the laying down to grafs, Mr. Dixon 

 is likewife very attentive to have it done in 

 a neat and maflerly manner. Of hay feeds 

 jie fows fix bufhels per acre, and eight 

 pounds of Dutch clover, and alfo about a 

 tenth of the whole of parfley, for the fake 

 of his fheep. In 1759, four acres were 

 plowed and fown, half with buck wheat, 

 and half with peafe ; both were plowed in 

 when in bloffom, and winter fallowed after, 

 and, in the fpring, fown with graffes aione ', 

 $ve acres adjoining were fown alfo among 

 barley, and another five without either corn 

 or manure : The refult of this experiment, 

 which was very well imagined, was this, 

 that, from the firft year, to the prefent time, 

 no kind of difference has been perceived, 

 that, however, which was fown aione, 

 would, without attention, have proved the 



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