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Aska til godsel pa angar. Ashes as manure on meadows. 



Mr. Williams had strown ashes over the grass-sward 

 in one and another of his meadows, partly to destroy 

 the moss, partly by this means to increase the growth 

 grasvaxten, for he counted ashes as a beautiful 

 manure on meadows. 



Dikes-jord til godsel. Ditch earth as manure. 



Down in a dale a ditch had newly been thrown out. 

 The earth, jorden, which had been taken out of it, was 

 arranged in heaps alongside of the ditch, to [T. I. p. 250] 

 lie some time, but afterwards it would be carried out 

 on to the ploughed field, spread out, and blended with 

 the other soil of the ploughed field, aker-mullen, as a 

 manure. This earth which was dug up out of the ditch, 

 diket, was mostly a beautiful soil, en skon svart- 

 mylla. 



Nyttan af the two-wheel double Hertfordshire 

 Plough, eller den frvahjulade dubbla Hertfordshire 

 plogen. 



We afterwards accompanied Mr. Williams home to 

 his farm, where he showed us the two-wheel double 

 Hertfordshire Plough which no one else besides himself 

 in the whole of Little Gaddesden had. It is well-known 

 that this plough consists only of one plough-beam, plog-as, 

 but on this beam there are two ploughs, the one before 

 and the other behind, den ena framfore, den andra 

 bakefter. Plog-asen, the plough-beam makes a bend, 

 en krok, between the two ploughs, through which it 

 happens that each plough ploughs a separate and new 

 furrow, so that the latter plough turns over its furrow 

 on to the furrow which the first plough has made. Thus 

 this plough casts up two furrows at one time, and, as all 

 wheat fields hereabouts are mostly laid out in two'bout- 



