184 Of the Management^ and 

 for the Rains walhing down their Nitrous 

 and Sulphurous Qualities, opens the Ground, 

 and will upon the ftrength of Wai-er caqfe 

 it to heave in feme Degree, as Lime will do 

 after Burning, with the Application of Water ; 

 Nothing is better for Meadow Land, A Gen- 

 tleman of my Acquaintance in Ha^fp/hire^ 

 upon laying on a Quantity, had a prodigious 

 Burthen of Grafs, even to a Miracle, but he 

 found that he had loaded too much on, and 

 therefore be laid only about 10 Loads on an 

 Acre, and had a very regular, noble Crop the 

 next Year. And in the worft Lands of all, 

 JO or 12 Loads are full enough -^ but in the 

 covering Corn in poor fandy fhallow Ground, 

 the Coal Allies pught to be mix*d with Mold, 

 or, which is better, with Pond Earthy For, 

 ihis not only improves, but qualifies and 

 deepens the Soil and Manure together. And 

 I can't but recommend the mixing of this and 

 all other Superficial Improvements, with an 

 adequate Quantity of Earth, at leaft as it 

 will be a help to fix and receive the Salts of 

 the A(hes, &c. the better. 



Befides the ufe it is of to four MeadowLand, 

 It is alfo jin excellent Improvement for Up- 

 Lands and Grafs Seed§, efpecially Sainuhomy 

 which is fpwn on (c)me of our pooreft Lands, 

 And this I have confirmed to me by a Gen? 

 tleman of the £'z'e/)'« Family (whom I men- 

 don in Gratitude tor his Kindnefi to me) a 

 Relation of that gr(^at Virttiofo whom we 



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