Improvement of arable Land. 16^ 



Vetches, and about the beginning of Augufi 

 plough it in, and it is one of the beft Vegeta- 

 tive Manures ; or if you have a mind, and the 

 Seafon offer?, you may (heer off the tops 

 of your Buck Wheat, and feed your Hogs 

 and Poultry therewith^ For the Farmers 

 fuppofe, that the chief Virtue of Bticky^\\C2it 

 lies juft between the Root and the Straw, in 

 that Place where we affign the Principle of 

 Life to be feated 5 and they add, that whea 

 the Ground is plough*d up, it fwells as if it 

 were newly dung'd with Horfe Dung; which 

 feems to intimate, that there is a great deal 

 of Virtue in the Roots of the Corn it feU^ 



It would be difficult to affign particular 

 Rules for the Management and Cropping of 

 thefe kind of Lands ; but from what has been 

 generally and promifcuoufly faid, the careful 

 Husbandman may colled what he is to do in 

 all, or moft Sorts of Land he lliall meet with : 

 And 'tis indeed a great happinefs that he be- 

 gins his Work at this time of Day, when Im- 

 provements of Land are fo well known. It 

 were not eafy to believe, did it not occur 

 daily, that Earth could be improved by its 

 own Produce, and that the very Sea and the 

 interior Bowels of the Earth (hould contri- 

 bute to the Improvement of the Surface of 

 our Lands, which heretofore were thought 

 improvable only by Dung 5 befides, Dungs 

 (imply confidery, 'tis pleafant to think that 

 SeaSandj Sea Weeds, Oyfters, aod other 

 1^. , Sea 



