of CrosskilVa Clod- Crusher. 
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Query 3 — Light Lands. 
Query 4 — Wircwovm, Grub, &c. 
Query 5 — Grass Landii, &c. 
Wheat on stion;; and lands, 
ami especially on stony and j,'iavolly 
landSf are greatly improved by the 
use of the clod-crusher in the spring, 
particularly after turnips and clover- 
ley, it is much superior to the peg- 
roller after sowing. 
I have no hesitation in saying 
I have found it a specific to the 
wireworm. 
P.S- In my opinion no farmer 
sliould be without one. 
Very valuable. 
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then setting a number of men to barrow the ditch-bank into the middle 
of the marsh, finding I had sufficient mould to cover it all over about I J 
inches thick. I then sowed it with Tartarian oats, about 5 bushels per 
acre, in the month of February, well harrowing the ground vvith an ox- 
harrow, having the large lumps chopped; then, as early as possible 
after the oats were up, rolling them twice or three times, and letting the 
oats and grass grow up together till harvest. They are ready to cut at 
least a week before the upland corn. I have them reaped sufficiently 
low to collect the corn • then set the scythe to cut, between the shocks, 
the grass and stubble, which is nearly knee-high. The latter T cart into 
a stack as soon as I can get it dry, adding some salt to every load. The 
oats I frequently bring home to a meadow to harvest, as it not only 
clears the marsh for stock, but finds advantageous work for my horses. 
In stacking the oats, I have a maun-basket drawn up the middle : they 
being nearly all corn, with so little straw, arc apt to heat. After I had 
finished a second marsh of 8 acres in 1832, I requested my worthy 
landlord's attention to this improvement of his estate, who immediately 
