Improvement of arable Land. 137 

 the intenfe Heat of the Sun in Summer. This 

 fort of Work is of mighty Advantage to all 

 Sorts of arable Lands, becaufe it fweetens 

 the Earth, kills the Weeds 5 and Land thus 

 ploughM up and laid fallow all the Winter, is 

 ready for any kind of Spring Crop : But in 

 cold, heavy Lands it is certainly the worft of 

 Husbandry to omit it 5 (tho* we fee it too of- 

 ten) and this is the reafon why all good FIus- 

 bandmenin the Wood-land Countries, where 

 the Ground is ftrong, lay their Ground they 

 defign the next Yean for Barley, or any o- 

 ther Spring Crop, Fallow : And to look a little 

 while into our Gardens, we fee all good 

 Gardeners, as foon as Michaelmas is turn'd, 

 trenching their Ground, and laying it in 

 Ridges (the Method of doing which, is 

 taught in the jSrft Volume) for it is not only 

 of great Advantage to the Ground, but it lies 

 likewife more ready againft the Spring, and 

 fitter to receive what Seed we intend to few 

 upon it; and, as our Country Men phrafeit, 

 it Ploughs, Harrows, and Rakes a great deal 

 the better for it. The Country Farmer {hould, 

 then, as foon as his Crop of Wheat is off, and 

 the Herbage a little cut down (viz,) as foon 

 as Harvert and Wheat fov/ing is over, confi* 

 der what ftifFLand he has, that he intends to 

 fow in the Spring, and plough it up, but in 

 as rough a manner as he pleafes. The Frofl 

 in the Winter will pierce the greateft Horfr- 

 headed Lumps his Plough can throw up, and 



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