Improvement of arahl^ Land. 1 55 



by the rigorous Cold of the Winter, fecond- 

 ed by Rains and Dews,which relax the Firm- 

 nefs of its Parts, and by a natural and eafy 

 Kind of Calcination, make thofe Lumps crura-, 

 ble into the fined: Duft or Mold* 



But there are feveral ways to bring thefe 

 ftiff Grounds to Tillage, fmce when they 

 are firft broke up out of a common Pafture, 

 or have laid unplough'd for a Year or two s 

 this common Method of Tilling by a Sum- 

 mer or Winter Fallow will not do^ the 

 Husbandmen in Part BuckJfighjmJlnre^ 8cc^ 

 where thofe Lands are in great Plenty, give 

 them the ordinary Method of fallowing, and 

 then fow them with Horfe Beans,and in other 

 Parts of Berh^pme and HampJJjire with Peafe ^ 

 and this is a good Method to bring it in- 

 to Tillage. I lliall not in this Paragraph 

 fpeak of many of the very furly Clays 

 we meet with in feveral Places; fome 

 of them when they are new broke up, re- 

 quiring at leaft three, and fomerimes four 

 Plowings, Qhis Frigora) two Winters to 

 bring them into Order, this being what I fiiall 

 treat of with their Management and Culture 

 in the next. As for the changes of Corn Ma- 

 nure, &c. what was fpecified in the firft 

 Divifion of Earth w'ill be proper in this, 

 without very much Variation, there being 

 little Difference in them, but the Colour 

 i^pth of them abounding with a happy Equa- 

 lity 



