158 Oj the Management] ami 



will, before Spring, reduce it into the fineft 

 Daft or Mold, whereby it will be fow'd, and 

 harrowed with more eale, and is thereby in 

 thefaireft way of yielding a bountiful En- 

 creafe. 



Before I go any farther, 'tis requifite I 

 ftiould mention fome of the Sorts of Flough- 

 ing in ufe with us m Lands of difFerent Con* 

 textures. Of Plough-trenching;, I have alrea- 

 dy fpoke, in the Choice of Soils in the l>e- 

 ginning of this Book. Rafter Ploughing and 

 Sowing under Furrow, is what needs fome 

 Explanation, there being little (aid of it in 

 any of our Ruftick Authors , the firft is us*d 

 in Lands, after they are burnt baked, as 

 our Farmers term it, where they fet their 

 Iron pretty {hallow, and plough one Furrow, 

 and leave another whole: For, lay they> 

 ihould we plough oar Ground throughly, 

 the Allies, which are the Spirit and Life of 

 our Ground, would be all buried, and the 

 Ground itfelf be urelefs,and never the better 

 for Baking 5 whereas this alternate Plough- 

 ing and Harrowing afterwards i\iixLS the 

 Earth and Allies together,and they are not bu- 

 ried as in the other common ways or Plough- 

 ing they infallibly muft be. Ploughing and 

 Sowing under Furrow is where the Grpynd 15. 

 very light, and fandy, and that the Corn 

 requires to be well covered, and this is uiual 

 in fuch Lands in Peafe, and Oats, and fome- 

 umcs even Barley and V/heat, But, to pro- 

 ceed 



