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tenant to plough a rufliy piece : and if it be af- 

 terwards properly drained, and finally laid 

 down with feeds, the ruihes will be nearly dc- 

 ftroyed. 



Rufhes will not grow, or at lead, not arrive 

 at any degree of ptrtedlion without moifture. 

 Either they muft be fed with water from the 

 furface of the earth, or derive nounfhment from 

 fprings at a fmali depth. A dry foil will not 

 produce them. 1 had a proof of this upon the 

 farm at Aby-Grange before-mentioned. A 

 piece of land being very ruihy, my father was 

 permitted to plough it. The firft crop was 

 oats — the fummer was remarkably dry. After 

 the oats were got off, the land was harrowed, 

 and fown with cole-feed, which produced the 

 beft crop 1 ever had feen, when fown fo late in 

 the feafon. We had frequently tried to raifc 

 ; cole before for (heep in the autumn, but it ne- 

 ver came to perfedlion. I now know that we 

 failed becaufe v/e ploughed the ground a com- 

 mon depth, and did not futiiciently pulverife it. 

 We relied upon the oats which were fhaken 

 out by the mowing, &c. growing and furnilh- 

 ing great part of the food to be raifed for the 



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