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mould, fruitful; producing great crops of barlejr, 

 rye, peafe, vetches, clover, trefoil, burnet, and par- 

 ticularly fainfoin. The latter plant flourifhes in a 

 chalky foil better than any other. But if the furtacc 

 of mould be very thin, this foil requires good ma- 

 nuring with clay, marie, loam, or dung. As thefe 

 lands are dry, they may be fown earlier than others. 



When your barley is three inches high, throw 

 in iolb. of clover, or 151b. of trefoil, and roll it 

 well. The next fummer mow the crop for hay ; 

 feed off the aftermath with iheep; and in winter 

 give it a top-drefling of dung. This will pro* 

 duce a crop the fecond fpring, which fhould be 

 cut for hay. As foon as this crop is carried off, 

 plough up the land, and in the beginning of Sep- 

 tember fow three bufhels of rye per acre, either 

 to feed off with fheep in the fpring, or to ftand 

 for harveft. If you feed it off, fow winter vetches 

 in Auguft or September, and make them into hay 

 the following fummer: then get the land into 

 as fine tilth as poflible, and fow it with fainfoin, 

 which, with a little manure once in two or three 

 years, will remain and produce good crops for 

 twenty years together. 



$d!y. Light poor land, \vhich feldom produce! 



good crops of any thing till well manured. After 



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