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clean husbandry ; they should be extirpated, not only 
from arable, meadow, and pasture, land, but also from 
road sides and hedges; and I cannot but observe, 
that, in the neglect of this particular, I had never 
seen any thing so slovenly, as in some parts of this 
county. 
Docks, thistles, and other weeds, should be rooted 
out of pastures; even the scabious and knap weed of 
some upland cold pastures is very unsightly, and might 
as well as other improper and useless herbage be weak¬ 
ened by hand weeding. 
Draining is wanted, both in pasture and arable land, 
as well as in common fields; and though few countries 
are better in this respect, yet considerable improve¬ 
ment remains to be effected in this way, an improve¬ 
ment than which, when well executed, none is more 
present or more permanent. 
ROADS. 
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In many of the deep clay soils, the cross roads are 
scarcely at times passable ; these should be properly 
formed, well drained, and covered with hard materials. 
Nothing adds more to the pleasantness and comfort of a 
neighbourhood, than facility of safe and easy commu¬ 
nication ; without which, the convej^ance of either 
manure, or the produce of the land is difficult, unsafe, 
and sometimes impracticable: the plashing of hedges 
and sinking deep ditches, with proper outlets, would 
often do a great part of the business. 
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