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General Rules for the Improvement of Lands ^ by Clay- 

 ing and Marling, as pra^ifed hy us. 



1. Lands that have been many years in plough 

 tilth, and are become foul, may be made clean by 

 a fummer-tilth. When this is done, lay on from 

 fixty to eighty tons of clay, or from twenty to 

 thirty tons of marie, per acre. Work it well 

 into the lands, and then few turnips as before- 

 direfled. Feed the turnips off*, or at leaft half: 

 by the treading of the cattle and their manure, 

 the clay will incorporate and work more kindly 

 with the foil. The fpring follov^ing fow it with 

 barley.— Or, 



To clay upon a clover- ftubble before the wheat 

 is fown, is a very good method ^ — it will be fit for 

 a fummer-tilth the next year. 



2. To improve wafte or heath -lands, clay or 

 marie on the flag, from thirty to forty loads of 

 marie, or one hundred and twenty tons of clay, 

 per acre. Turn it in with a good whelming- 

 plough, a moderate depth, in the beginning of 

 Februarys the fooner the better.. If the foil be 

 red and fandy, fow it with white oats. If a black 

 gravelly foil, fow black oats in the middle of 

 March, at lead four bufliels per acre. As foon as 



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