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at laft only fit for Ray-grafs, mixt with Trefoil as above. 



68. Laftly, then finely and gravelly light ground, hasalfo much 

 the fame tillage for wheat and barly, as clay, (src. only they require 

 many times but two ploughings, efpecially if for wheat, except the 

 fallow be run much to weeds, and then indeed they fomtimes afford 

 \taftirring, elfe none at all . Itsmoft agreeable grains -die, white, 

 red, and mixt Lammas wheats, and mifcellan, i. e. wheat and rye to- 

 gether, and then after a years fallow, common or rathe-ripe barly '- 

 fo that it generally lies frill every other year, it being unfit for 

 hitching, i. e. Beans and Peas, though they fomtimes fow it with 

 whiter Vetches ; and if ever with Peas, the fmall rathe-ripes are ac- 

 counted the bed : Its moil agreeable manure is of ftraw, from the 

 Clcfe or Mhen half rotten, which keeps it open, and fufTers it not 

 to bind too much, where fubjeft to it ; but if otherwife, the rot- 

 teneft dung is the beft. 



69. Whereof, as upon all other Lands before mention'd, they 

 lay about 1 2 loads upon a common Field acre, i. e. about 20 upon 

 a Statute acre ; but I find the bufinefs of manuring Land to have a 

 great latitude,Uen doing it here many times not according to their 

 judgment, but according to the quantities they have, fo that where 



the quantities of manure are but fmall and the tillage is great, the 

 cafe is much otherwife, than where both tillage and manure are 

 in a contrary condition. But however the cafe (land, I find this 

 a general Rule amongft them, that they always foil that Land firft 

 and beft, which is to bear three Crops ; one on the tillage, another 

 of beans and peas, and a third of barly, on the beans or peas brufh ; 

 all which depend upon the fingle manure given it when it lay fallow 

 for wheat ' though I have known this order frequently inverted 

 by the beft Husbandmen on their richeft Lands, fowing barly firft, 

 then peas or beans, and their wbeai laft, for which they allege this 

 very good reafon,That wheat following the dung Cart on their beft 

 Land, is the more liable to fmut. 



70. And fo much for the ordinary Manures of this County, 

 there being two others yet behind, viz^ Chippingsofslone, and woolen 

 rags, not altogether fo common, which I have therefore thought 

 fit to confider apart , theirs! whereof I met with at Hornton near 

 Banbury, where the chippings of the (lone they hew at their Quarry, 

 proves a very good manure for their Ground thereabout, and is 

 accordingly madeufe of, by reafon no doubt of a filt that flone 



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