Improvement of arable Lmd. z 1 3 



immediately^ or the following Spring, and 

 fowed with Hay-Seed, or with Corn and^ 

 Hay-Seed together. By this means the acid' 

 Juice, of a llerile Nature, which lay on the 

 Surface of the Earth, and hindered the Growth 

 of the Herbage, will be exhal'd, and the Grafs 

 which had a long time degenerated, by (land- 

 ing in a poor Ground, be totally deftroy'd, 

 and the Land reftor'd to Fertility, fo as to 

 be capable of receiving a better Species brought 

 in the Seed' from other productive Soils. This 

 Method of Burning Meadows and Paflure- 

 Ground is certainly of the greateft Ufe^ but 

 the Expence and Trouble being very great, 

 and the Improvement of Lime having got a 

 prodigious Reputation, in rcfped to the Ma- 

 nagement of cold marlhy Pafiure, it is not at 

 this Time fo frequently pradlis'd as formerly, 

 but Lime and other fuperficial Improvements 

 are preferr'd.- 



SECTION XIX. 



Of Improvements hy Heath and Fern. 



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"^Here are feveral Particulars relating to 

 the Burning of Heath and Fern, and 

 the Management of the Land wher«on they 

 grow for Improvement, obferv'd in feveral 

 Counties of England^ worthy to be comma- 



Q. 3 nicared 



