52 O F P L O W I N G. Part L 



it is daily brought on, does, with the'fame plough he ufed hefore, 

 givvj the lecond ftirring to the ground, in order to turn in the rich- 

 nefs of thofe helps you have beftowed upon it. By this means 

 the fun, high and powerful in this feafon, will be prevented froni 

 exhaling the 'virtue of your manure, as it always does in the com- 

 mon way of letting it lie in little heaps in the field for a great while 

 together. 



It is now the time to harrow over your ground, with a heavy wide- 

 tooth'd harrow, and a great weight laid upon it ; by which means 

 more mould will be rais'd, the clods broken into fmaller pieces, and 

 the manure mingled with the foil in every part. It is not enough to 

 harrow once and away; — you mull; go over the fame ground again 

 and again, till you have made it as fmooth and crumbly as is re- 

 quifite : and this work will very well employ your team, from the 

 end of July, to the middle of Auguil : about which time fliould be 

 begun the third and lafl plowing. 



I come now to your lands of a /ig/jt temper, and, for method's 

 fake, will begin at Lady-day upon this land alfo. Here the /ig/jt 

 plough is to be ufed; and as to the turning down the turf, and lay- 

 ing fmooth the furrows, the fame care is to be obferved on one 

 land, as is recommended for the other. 



Betwixt the Jirjl plowing and the fecotid, thefe lands are alfo to 

 receive the annual recruits which you think tit to give them; and that 

 maybe either chalk, mark, clay,J}jeeps-diing, prepar'd with earth, not 

 fajid; fea-oivje of the clofeft, black, fat kind; all forts o{ mud, or, 

 for want of either of thefe, yonr Jiercorary may fupply you. 



Five and twenty load of the laft is the quantity moft proper ; 

 thirty of chalk ; of marie, at leaft a hundred ; and of a clay, a little 

 more : twenty load of prepar'd flieeps-dung, and as much of fea- 

 owfe; and if you ufe mud, lefs than forty or fifty load will be too 

 little. Ufe either of thefe manures as your befi; conveniency invites 

 you, and, as was directed before, take care that your plowman turns 

 it in as faft as it is brought on, and fpread upon the furface. 



But here comes a necelTary caution, that your men begin to bring- 

 on the manure on that end of your hundred acres which your plow- 

 man firft began to break up, that the turf may be rotted before it is 

 turned up the fecond time. — Be regardful of this rule, or you will 

 find the negleft of it produce a great deal of confufion. 



When the manure is all turned in, bring on your heavy harrows, 

 and go over the land fo often, as till the whole mafs is exquifitely 



mingled. 



