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whilft in other poor Lands jo or 40 will be 

 but enough* Horfe Dung is generally car- 

 riedinto the Fields in May^ when the Tearas 

 are moft at leifure, but I rather advile 

 the mixing it with Pond Earth, the Shovel- 

 hngs of Streets, or Lime, than to ufe it 

 finglyj and efpecially in all hot natur^d 

 Land, where it is very apt to force the 

 Ground too faft, to produce abundance of 

 Weeds, and be injurious to the Crops you 

 fow upon them. ^Tis for this reafon, that in 

 £jlfex^ Hartford^ and other Neighbouring 

 Countries they get what Quantities of Lime 

 Stones they can to mix with it, tho' at a great 

 Expence. 



Our beft Husbandmen aver, that Horfe 

 Dung is beft to be us*d when the Ground is 

 to be fow'd with Barly rather than Wheat, 

 tho' many of our Country Farmers rather 

 chufeto Dung their Lands when they fow 

 Wheat on them ^ but if you Dung it for Bar- 

 ly, which I much rather approve, lay it on 

 your Land at Michaelmas^ or as foon as ever 

 you have given it a Winter Fallow, and then 

 the Rains will walli it in, and digeft it before 

 the Seed is fit to be fown in it. 



In fliort, the beft ufe that can be made of 

 Horfe Dung, if the Land you are to Dung be 

 light and ihallow, is to mix one Load of 

 Horfe Dung, one of Pond Earth, and half 

 a Load of Cow Dung, let them be well 

 confumy together 5 and if you have Goal qs 



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