. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. to flood his fields, they arc laid under water, in which state they are commonlv ploughed again, in thesame manner as for fallow, and then a rake, or rather a sort of harrow, about three feet deep and four Book I. AGRICULTURE IN ASIA. 161 feet wide, with a single row of teeth, is drawn, by the same animal that draw; their plough perpendicu-larly thr
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. to flood his fields, they arc laid under water, in which state they are commonlv ploughed again, in thesame manner as for fallow, and then a rake, or rather a sort of harrow, about three feet deep and four Book I. AGRICULTURE IN ASIA. 161 feet wide, with a single row of teeth, is drawn, by the same animal that draw; their plough perpendicu-larly through the soil, to break the lumps, and to convert it into a kind of ooze; and as the teeth of thisrake or harrow are not set more than from two to three inches apart, it serves, at the same time veryeffectually to remove roots and otherwise to clean the ground. For some purposes, the ground thus pre-pared is allowed to dry ; it is then formed into beds or trenches ; the beds are made of a convenient sizefor watering and laying on manure. The intermediate trenches are commonly about nine inches deepand of the necessary breadth to give to the beds the required elevation ; biit when the trenches arewanted for the cultivation of water plants, s
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