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it, and let it lie rough through the winter. In 

 March give it another good ploughing; drag, 

 rake, and harrow it well, to get out the rubbifh, 

 and fow four bufhels of black oats per acre if the 

 foil be wet, and white oats if dry. When about 

 four inches high, roll them well after a mower : 

 This will break the clods; and the fine mould 

 falling among the roots of the plants will promote 

 their growth greatly. 



Some fow clover and ray-grafs among the oats, 

 but I think it is bad hufbandry. If you defign it 

 for clover, fow it fingle, and let a coat of dung 

 be laid on in December. The fnow and rain will 

 then dilute its falts and oil, and carry them down 

 among the roots of the plants. This is far better 

 than mixing the crops on fuch land ; for the oats 

 will exhauft the foil fo much, that the clover will 

 be impoverifhed. The following fummer you will 

 have a good crop of clover, which cut once, and 

 feed the after-growth. Inj:he winter plough it 

 in, and let it lie till February: then plough and 

 harrow it well; and in March, if the foil be 

 moid, plant beans in drills of three feet, to admit 

 the horfe-hoe freely. When you horfe-hoe them 

 a fecond time, fow a row of turnips in each in- 

 terval, and they will fucceed very well. But if 

 the land be ftrong enough for fo\ving wheat as 



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