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obferve both the fiirface of your ground, and the depth of it. 

 If you find it a good deep mould, and covered by a thick, ftrong, 

 fibrous turf, fuch as by long lying, is become firmly rooted ; in this 

 cafe it will be much the wifeft way to Ijurn and fpread the alhes, by 

 the rules before given, not, by any means, omitting to manure, be- 

 tween the firft reaping and the fecond /owing ; after which you may 

 proceed in all points, as if the turf had been plow'd in, inltead of 

 being burnt. 



But if, on the contraiy, you find your upper mould fliallow, or 

 thin turf 'd, it will by no means be proper to burn it : you muft, 

 therefore, take notice, whether your foil be of the light kind or 

 the heavy. If, upon examining it by the marks above-mention'd, 

 you find it of a heavy nature, you muft prepare your ftrong plough 

 and ox team, and take care that, in the firft breaking up, as they 

 call it, your plowman turns the turf fide neatly downvv^ards, and 

 lays his furrows fo fmooth and clofe together, that, at a little di- 

 llance, a man can fcarce fee where the plough went. — If the ftrong 

 turf is turned down in the latter end of autumn, the ftrong fibrous 

 roots will be more effcdlually rotted againft the fummer plowing, 

 and the foil will be mouldered, or mellowed, by the winter's froft 

 and rains. 



Between this firft plowing and the fecond, is the only proper time 

 for laying on your manure of what kind foever. The feveral forts 

 proper for lands of this nature, are fea-fand, common- [and, fea-oufe 

 of the lighteft kind, not fuch as is black and greafy : peeps-dung, 

 mix'd with /and under a cover'd fold, as before defcribed ; or, for 

 want of any of thefe, the compojl in your ftercorary. 



Which ever of thefe you lie moft convenient for, you may make 

 ufe of, in the following proportions : of fea-fand you muft lay 

 upon every acre five and twenty loads ; of common-fand never lefs 

 than a hundred, which quantity you may double, if it lies com- 

 modioufly : twenty load oi fea-o%vfe is fufficient ; and fifteen of 

 pieef s-dung mingled as before : and if you are obliged to rely upon 

 the affiftance of yowr Jiercorary, you muft lay about twenty load upon 

 an acre. 



According to the manure you are obliged to ufe, your charge will 

 be more or lefs confiderable in the number of carts and teams ne- 

 ceffary : for this rule you muft be fure to obferve punilually, that 

 the manure be all laid on by the laft day of July ; in which time, 

 the plowman, a labourer being employ'd to fpread the manure, as 



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