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with all forts of Wheat, Mifcellan, Barly, (src. having the fame til- 

 lage, and requiring to be kept high, and to lie dry and warm as 

 the Clay doth, only its moft proper manure is the rottenesl dung $ 

 and as they fow Beans next after Wheat in clay grounds, in this 

 they judge Peas a more agreeable grain, and take care in their 

 feed-time that the weather be fair, and fetled ; for if there happen 

 but afmart fhower prefently after they have fown^ it will bind 

 fo fall:, that the feed in great part will be utterly loft ; whereas if 

 they have but one or two dry nights, all fucceeds well enough* 



6 1. If Bed-land , whereof there are fome quantities in the 

 North and Weft of Oxford-fiire, it muft have its tillage as foon in 

 the year as pofiibly may be, before the clay, where they are in 

 competition, becaufe it will not endure the fcorching tillage that 

 clay will do, and therefore muft have it before the Sun get to near 

 the Crab : if it be moift when fallowed, fo it be not too wet, it is 

 the better. This never requires a double ftirring^ nor muft be 

 made toofineznd. light, for then it runs to May-weed, or Mathern i 

 as they call it ; yet the manure for clay does very Well with it, but 

 the mixt manure of Horfe-dung and Cove-dung together, they fay 

 does beft of any : Nor is the Sheep-fold amifs either Winter or 

 Summer, which muft all be applyed before fiirring, and ploughed 

 in ; if for wheat, about the latter end of July, or beginning of Au- 

 guft; if for barly, later in the year, as the time and feafon gives 

 leave. This Land, like clay, bears wheat, mifcellan, harly-, and^y, 

 in their order very well, and lies fallow every other year, where it 

 falls out of their hitching. 



62. There is another fort of ground in this County which they 

 call Sour-land, which muft have its tilth according to its ftate and 

 condition when they fet about it ; if it have a faongfwarth on it, 

 then they caft to give it a fallow, when the Sun is prety well en- 

 ter'' d Cancer ; and this they call a fcalding- fallow, which kills the 

 grafs roots, and makes the Land fine ; But if it be light, and as 

 they term it, hath little skin on the back, they either leave it for 

 cooler tillage, or plough it early in the year as foon as their clay is 

 fallow td,2.nd then there will faring fome fpiring-grafs that will keep 

 it from fcorching in the Summer ; for if they fuffer it to be fcorch- 

 ed when it is light before, all their Art and Manure will never pro- 

 cure a good Crop of it. 



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