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Iheep : but by ploughing fo deep we had burl- 

 ed them. At that tune I had no doubt but an 

 oat would grow through a clod a foot thick ! I 

 agreed in opinion with farmers in that clayey 

 country, who fow wheat in autumn j and, if the 

 feafon proves dry, when they have moved clods 

 with the plough, of eight or nine inches cube 

 upon the wheat, wonder at feeing the crop fo 

 thin, and are puzzled to account for it. 



But to return from this digrefiion to our crop 

 of cole with the flied oats, as alfo to the rufhes. 

 The cole and oats were eaten off by fheep, and 

 the land fallowed, and {own with turnips. The 

 next crop, to make the fallow, we ploughed 

 crofs-wife, in order to level the ground, as the 

 furrows were very low, and the ridges very 

 high. We then ploughed downwards; and, 

 to pulverize the foil, made ufe of a pair of har- 

 rows with teeth like coulters, for which reafon 

 we call them cGulter-teeth harrows. The land 

 was harrowed acrofs and in every diredlion with 

 them, until they had divided the roots of the 

 rufhes into millions of plants ^ fo that we took 

 the befl poffible method to propagate thofe 

 which the fealba had not been fufliciently<3ry 



