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 SECTION VII. 



The Method of fcarifying and making Land fit 

 for Wheat after the other Crops are off. 



BY putting the manure, as before directed, 

 into drills two feet afunder, it becomes neceffa- 

 ry to crofs the drills to mix the manure well 

 in the foil, and to pulverife it. The readied 

 way to do this is, by Cook's fcarifier : but 

 thofe who are not in pofTefiion of that ufeful 

 machine, may fubftitute one of a fimple con- 

 duction, which will be defcribed hereafter. 

 Ploughing in this cafe is very improper. For 

 jf there be a fmall quantity of couch-grafs, or 

 of any other weed, the plough turns it down- 

 wards, caufes it to fpread abundantly, and 

 hides it ; fo that, when you come to plough 

 for fowing wheat, the weeds are fet at liberty 

 again to fprout out at a feafon when no weeds 

 die. Cook's fcarifier draws out the roots of 

 the couch-grafs at full length. The plough 

 would cut them up, and turn them over, and 

 confequently increafe the number of roots - 9 the 

 fmalleft bit of which will grow. By the fca-. 

 rifier all other weeds, fuch as thirties, &c. are 

 cut up, and, when harrowed, are eafily collect- 

 ed together and carried off. 



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