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 Arlicle XXIII. 



On the Management of Clay-Lands, and fomc 

 of the Caiifcs cf the Difcourage?ne?it of Agri- 

 culture. 



[By a Gentleman Farmer in Eflex.] 

 Sir, 



I Received your letter, and in anfwer thereto, 



(hall give you an account of the bed method 



we have in manuring and cropping our very 

 ftrong or ftiff clays. 



We begin by making a good fallow: What I 

 mean by a good fallow is, to turn in the Hubble 

 as foon after harveft as an opportunity offers. In 

 the fucceeding fummer, plough it four or five 

 times clean, and as deep as the foil will admit of; 

 at leaft fo deep as to turn up the thiftle roots, and 

 the fpear-grafs, that lie in the good foil. 



The fecond year fow barley; the third year 

 make another good fummer fallow; the fourth 

 year fow rev its, (red lammas wheat;) and in the 

 month of March throw in ten pounds of red clo- 

 ver-feed per acre ; the fifth year feed it all fummer 

 • with horfes and fheep; the fixth year make a good 



K % fallow. 



