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on it’s wheels,) and turned about, be then yoked at the other end of the cart, and fo return in the fame tra@ in which they came. Care-fhould be taken, in general, to draw the loaded cart down the hull, not only becawfe of the eafinefs of the draught, but alfo becaufe the wheels will make a clear tract, to ferve asa good wa- ter furrow afterwards.

(m, page 259.) In a praétical treatife of this na uture, it is im- pofible to avoid ufing technical phrafes, without employing sreat circumlocution. But technical phrafes are fometimes of a loca! nature, and in danger of not being generally underftood. The words Tilth and Tid may be of that nature, for which reafon they require to be explained.

* Filth has always a reference to the ftate of the foil refpecting

g manures and culture. When it is richly impregnated with ma- nures, and well divided by means of good culture, it is{aid to be in good ¢/th; or in bad tilth, when the reverfe,

Tid has always a reference to the flate the foil has been in, chiefly as refpeéting wetnefs or drynefs at the time of labouring. At has been found by experience, that whatever{tate ground may be in at a particular time, as to tilth, if it be laboured when very wet, or fubjeGed to a deluge of rain, under particular circum- Stances, immediately after ploughing, the effects of the former good culture will in a great meafure be deftroyed; and the fuc- ceeding crop, which, if this{tirring i in improper circumftances had been avoided, would have been abundant,—will, in confequence of this circumftance, be very poor. A farmer, in this cafe, would fay, that the land had got a very bad zd; or, where the feafon, when labouring, and immediately after it, was y ery favourable, he

would call it a good td.

(", page 265.) This is the general eftimate in thefe counties where the fheep-fold has been long ufed. T myfelf am inclined

to think it could not dung fo much: on that point I will. not dif-

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