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Lucerne is bed drilled at fuch a diftance as 

 to admit of being moulded with a plough, fo 

 as to have an opportunity of tilling the land 

 betv/ixt each row, in the fame manner as de- 

 fcribed in the pea-fallow. But two feet is too 

 much to allow between the rows : the feed 

 might therefore be fown at only twelve inches 

 diftance, and a plough may be made of fix 

 inches fole to clean between the rows ; for a 

 plough is by far the cheapeft inftrument for 

 cleaning land, and may be made to anfwer bet- 

 ter than any implement I know of. 



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SECTION LXVI. 



Remarks on Flax s Culture y and Management till 

 ready for Ufe, 



FLAX is chiefly fown on fward-land, wharp 

 or clay ploughed up for the firft crop : but it 

 will thrive in any land that is tolerably clean 

 and good, if it has lain in grafs a reafonable 

 time. The land fhould be ploughed early 

 enough in v/inter to have the benefit of the 

 froft, as the mould cannot be too much broken 



or 



