Of OXfO%V^SHIXE. 
80. I have heard of another fort of Roll^ of a lafge diameter ^ 
and weighty, fet the whole length with edged plates of §leel^ pro- 
minent from the body of the i?c// about an inch and half; thus 
contrived for the quicker cutting of turf^ which drawn firft one 
way, and crofs again at right angles^ cuts the turf into fquares, in 
bignefs proportionable to the diftanceof the edged plates on the 
Roll^ requiring no farther trouble afterward, then to be pared 
oft the ground with a turfing Spade^ which feems to promife well 
for the cutting out of Trenches^ Drains, (yc. But this I have not 
feen, nor has it that I know of, been yet experimented by the in- 
genious Inventor : However, I thought fit to offer it to the confi- 
deration of Improvers^ and the rather becaufe it affords me a 
fmooth tranfition from the confideration of the Arable-, to the 
Meddow and Paflure Lands, 
8 1 . For the Meddow grounds of this County^ as they are numer- 
ous, fo they ^XQ fertileht^on6.2i\\preference^ for they need no o- 
ther comport to be laid on them, than what the Floods fpontaneoufly 
give them, and therefore the Reader muft notexpeQ: any methods 
or rules concerning that affair here : Nor concerning the remedies 
of annoyances, fuch as Sour-grafs^ Moffes^ Rufies^ Sedges^ (yc. for 
I find none of our meddows much troubled with them. As for 
their Vp-lands^ when they prepare them ^ox grafs^ they make them 
as rich as they can with their moft fuitable foils., and lay them alfo 
dry to keep them from Rufies and Sedges ; if any thing boggy, 
they iifually trench them ; but that proves not fufficient, for 
the trenches of boggy grounds will fwell, and fill up of them- 
felves. 
82. To prevent which inconveniency, I know an ingenious 
Husbandman, that having dug his trenches about a yard deep and 
two foot over, firft laid at the bottom green Black-tborn bufties, 
and on them a firatumo^ large round ftones, or at leaft fuch as 
would not lie clofe ; and over them again, another flratum of Blacky 
/^or«, and upon them y^r^u?, to keep the dirt from falling in be^ 
tween, and filling them up: by which means he kept his trench 
open, and procured fo conftant and durable a drain, that the land 
is fince funk a foot or i 8 inches, and become firm enough to fup- 
port carriages. 
83. As for the Graffes fown in this County, I have little more 
to add concerning them, but what was faid before in the Chapter 
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