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hull on the near fide of the harrow^ to take the Grafs much better 
than that. 
78. But the worft ground to harrow of all others is new broken 
Land^ the parts of its furrows being commonly fo faft knit to- 
gether by the roots of the grafs, that though great charge and 
trouble be adbrded in the ^^rrowi;^^, yet after all it will notfo 
differfe the Corn^ but that it will come up as it fell, thick and in 
ranks between the/wrroii:'5, and fcarce any where elfe. To pre- 
vent thefe inconveniencies., the Ingenious Mr. Sacheverel, late of 
Bolfcot^ deceafed, contrived a way of the earth horn the 
turf as foon as a little dryed, thereby firft laying his ground even 
and then fowing it; by which means his feed not only fell and 
came up equally difperft in all parts alike, but he found that a 
quantity confiderably lefs, did this way ferve the turn. Which 
£x/'eri;;2e;2/ he often made with good approbation^ the charge of 
bowing not exceeding that of harrowing^ which without it muft 
be great, whereas after it, one crofs tine coveis the Corn wtW e- 
nough. 
79. After harrowing^ if it hath been fo dry a time, that the 
ground has rifen in clods that cannot be broken with harrows, they 
commonly do it with a beetle, or big fiick * But a much quicker 
way is that I met with about Bijfeter by a weighty Roll^ not cut 
round, but oSIangular^ the edges whereof meeting with the clcds^ 
would break them effe6:ually, and with great expedition. I was 
fliewed alfo at Bolfcot another uncommon Roll, invented by the 
fame Mr. Sacbeverel above-mentioned, cut neither fmooth nor to 
angles^ but notched deep and pretty broad, after the manner of 
a Teffellaot Lattice^ fo that the protuberant parts remained al- 
mofl: as big as the foot of a Horfe, by which being large and weigh- 
ty, he could fo firmly prefs his light Land fubjeft to Quicb-grafs 
and other weeds^ and fo fettle the roots of the Corn, that it would 
come up even and well ; whereas if it had been left hollow it 
would certainly have been choaked, and came to little ; He aiTcrc- 
ed, that it alfo excelled a fmooth Roll^ efpecially if the Seafon 
proved dry and windy, in that, when a Field is rolled fmooth, 
the wind IS apt to blow the Earth from the Corn, whereas by this 
the ground is laid fo uneven and full of holes, like Chequer-worht 
that what the wind blows from the ridges, ftill falls into the hollows 
between them, and on the contrary gives the Corn the better root. 
80. I have 
