Improvement ofafalk Land. i6t 

 of Pot-Aflies, Old Rags, &c. it will in rhr e 

 or four Months, and by often turning make 

 excellent Manure 5 about 60 or 8 o Loads wxU 

 be fufEcient for an Acre, and you may here- 

 on fow what you pleafes but our general 

 Method in this,as in all other Lands isChange, 

 If thefe Ruffet Gray Earths lie low, and 

 the Water run round them, or thro', by 

 Ditches and Carriages, as we term them, 

 then they are excellent for Coal, Hemp and 

 Flax, and will bring in more Money ihaa 

 Corn will. The firft Year, then, after the 

 Ground is new broke up^ or newly Dung'd 

 and Manured, fow it with Hemp, Flax, or 

 Coal Seed 5 and after that, you may fow 

 Oats, Barley, or Pulfe, and Wheat alio, if 

 it be naturally good Land ; for thofe other 

 Seeds are great Drainers and Decay ers of the 

 Salt and Nitrous Parts of Land ; fo that ex- 

 cept the Ground is very goodj or one can 

 fpare a little Compoft to re-invigorate it^ 

 one would never fow Wheat ; for the Corn- 

 polls for thefe lower wet Lands, tho* they are 

 loofe, ought to be of a more lively Nature^ 

 than thofe that lie high ; for which, then, 

 take as follows (yiz.^ one Load and a 

 half of Sea Sand, Coal-Afties, Pigeon, or 

 Sheep's Dung : One Load of good rotten^ 

 Dung: And half a Load of the Shovelling of 

 Streets, Pond Earth, or the like,- Add to 

 thefe, a quarter of a Load of Pot- Aftiesjor any 

 other of thofe Kind of Simples^ that I have 



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