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covered on the flag with forty tons of clay, or 

 twenty tons of marie, or twelve tons of foapcrs' 

 allies, per acre, will produce good corn and clover 

 for twenty years. 



For gravelly, cold, or wet land, under-drain, 

 if it lie with a proper fall j — by thus removing the 

 caufe, the efFedl will ceafe. Summer- tilth, and 

 n.ake it clean j lay on from thirty to forty loads of 

 fand per acre, if a little loamy, the better; or about 

 fixteen loads of the above-mentioned compoft, or 

 ten or twelve tons of foaper's afhes, laid on in hard 

 froft, will anfwer well. 



4tbly. We have not difcovered any new manure 

 more efficacious than thofe abovementioned. The 

 burning of clay in kilns has been talked of, but not 

 yet pradlifed. 



^thly. In cold wet paftures that cannot be under- 

 drained, make open drains, floped off eafy on each 

 fide; keep them open, and make them with pro- 

 per falls: then lay on foot, lime, or lime-rub*. 

 bifh, foapers* afhes, ftreet-dirt, Sec, about fourteen 

 loads per acre, and it will laft 14 or 1 6 years. 



Sfbly, Materials for under-draining are, alders 



and fallows, or ling and black- thorn bufhes, cut 



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