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Land liable to be flooded mould be foiy,n 

 with a drill, for the following reafons : If a wet 

 wincer be fucceeded by a dry fpring, the foil 

 will become fo hard as very much to impede 

 the progrcfs of the plant; and when rain falls, 

 it penetrates the earth but partially. Were the 

 fcarifier and horfe-hoe ufed, it would lighten 

 the foil, and the rain would penetrate more 

 generally. 



The fort of land we are now fpeakingof is 

 very apt to abound with what is called fpry- 

 grafs — a fpecies of grafs which comes up fo 

 thick as to make abfolute fwards of the fpotsic 

 grows in, which are generally the moifteft parts 

 of the Meld. This kind of grafs robs the wheat- 

 plants of their food or nutriment: and where 

 it abounds, you mud expect but a fcanty crop 

 of corn. As a remedy for this evil, fow the 

 feed-wheat in drills, and in the interval betwixt 

 d^ill and drill fcarify or horfe-hoe the land ; 

 which will deftroy the grafs and weeds growing 

 in the intervals, and pulverife the foil fo as to 

 receive freely and equally the rain and dews. 

 The wheat may be moulded by the hoe; which 

 will make the plants vigorous, enable them 

 quickly to cover and protect the ground from 

 the ejects of drought, and enfure the fuccefsof 

 ihecrop. h would likewise be a great Hiving 



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