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when it has proved fortunate, a very dry time has ſet i N followed by a deluge of rain ſufficient to wet a clod through R of an hundred weight: for ſeveral years back, a clod of

half that ſize might have remained the whole ſummer

perfe&ly dry within fide, and of courſe too ſtubborn to::

be broken by common workmanſhip: a ſeaſon in this caſe muſt be loſt. Summer-fallowing muſt be of infinite uſe to clean and pulverize the land,‘and’to TeCeive ſuch compoſt, and manure, as may be thought beſt to dreſs it vith.

IT. TLand-draining, which 1s of great 1mportance on ſoils ſo very wet and tenacious as that of the uplands in this 1ſland; and every field lying with ſome declivity, 1S well ſituated for ſuch improvement. Surface-draining has been much praiſed; but I have ſeen it hurtful, from the method ſome farmers have purſued, by drawing the farrows dire&ly down the declivities; the water, by that

method, gains too much force, and waſhes away the

° C earth from the roots of the plants, which occaſions the corn and graſs to turn yeltow. It 1s certainly found to be the beſt method to plough fields of this deſcription the contrary way, and to lay the land in ſmall ridges to catch the water, that 1t may be condu&ed down the field by frequent large drains, acroſs the furrows, at leaſt fifteen inches in depth. I muſt confeſs, I am a greater advocate for under-draining, notwithſtanding it 1s done at a con- fſiderable expence, as it 1s the moſt effeCtual, and will be in the end the cheapeſt; for it will laſt, if done with wood 1in a proper manner, twenty vears; and if done with ſone, I may ſay for ever. Tt is but right that I ſhould explain myſelf for being ſo very partial to under-draining. Where draining 1s neceſſary, the PORES of the earth are evidently Obra dted and Tam perſuaded the obſtrution is principally in the ſecond fratum of the earth, or what O Mr: