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to kill. The third ploughing we lowed tur- 

 nips, and had a good crop, except on the top 

 of the ridges, whence we had taken all the foil 

 which had fallen into the furrows, leaving no* 

 thing but a hungry clay. I had not then feen 

 roots of weeds raked up and carried off fallows. 

 Therefore twitch*roQts, rufhes, and every nox- 

 ious weed had liberty to grow, when the feeds 

 were fown : but the land, being frefh, had ve- 

 ry little couch-grafs. 



The next crop was barley with rye-grafs and 

 white-cloven I tried an experiment by fow- 

 ing here and there a land without barley, to fee 

 whether it would be in a better (late in future 

 than thofe lands where barley had grown. But 

 in two years the land not fowH was fcarcely to 

 be diflinguifhed from that which had been 

 fown : a proof that, if barley had been raifed, 

 and the draw returned to the land in manure, 

 the foil, indead of receiving injury, would have 

 been improved by it. 



The rufhes grew ten times thicker than be- 

 fore the land was ploughed, and fpread all 

 over it, ridges and all. I thought the whole 

 field would turn out a bed of rufnes : but I was 



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