1(54 Beport on the Agriculture of Sweden and Norway. 
Cultivation of the Land. 
Fallow.' — The bare fallow is generally prepared by ploughing 
the oat-stubble 6 or 7 inches, before the season is too far advanced 
in the autumn. Early in the spring, that is to say, in the 
month of May, it is harrowed, and then either ploughed again 
or worked with a native kind of scuffler called an ard, illus- 
trated in Fig. 4. The farmyard manure is always applied to 
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Fig. 4. — Sketch of the Ard, Ardrct, or Order. 
SECTION 
A. Beam. 
B. Sole. 
C. Iron share. 
f). Iron vertical shaft to regulate depth of 
work by the liules r and the pin p. 
K E. Digging-breasts. 
F. Handle. 
G. . Hinder vertical shaft, supporting the 
handle, 
c Iron collar. 
this shift, either wliolly or partially, and is got on the land 
about the end of June or beginning of July. It is turned under 
