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how common Is it to kc, for the fake of ma* 

 king a fence (traigut, an acre of land rendered 

 unfit to be ploughed ! In one not exceeding 

 ten acres, I have feen this prove an abfoliite 

 nuifanccj and the occupier had received ad- 

 vantage by leaving it to any other perfon who 

 for the fake of the land would clear it of the 

 weeds. The farmer manured, ploughed, fow^ 

 ed, harrowed year after year ; but reaped no- 

 thing» He had the fatisfadion of feeing it 

 look black in fallow, and green with corn, 

 turnips &c.- — Couch-grafs indeed would give 

 a verdure, but no profit : and the mifchief is, 

 that by ploughing in the cuftomary manner 

 the couch-roots are conveyed through the 

 whole field, and plentifully fpread by crofs 

 ploughing and harrowing. 



When fences are made to inclofe ground, 

 they fhould always be fo placed as to be proper 

 for draining. Ditches are an outfall to either 

 furface or under-draining : and as it is the cuf- 

 tom to make under-drains much deeper than 

 furface-drains, the outfall ought to be particu- 

 larly attended to before either the one or the 

 Other is begun ; fpr, if any kind of drain is not; 



made 



