^34 ^f ^^^ Management and 



SECTION IL 



Of Sowing all Sorts of Cram 



IN all Sowings great Regard is to be had in 

 to make Eledion of good and proper Seed. 

 It is advifeable for the Farmer to procure Seed 

 from a worfe SoiJ than his own, but if he 

 cannot get fuch, 'tis more profitabieto have 

 it from good Land, than not to have Change ^ 

 for all manner of Seeds degenerate very much 

 when they are fown long upon any Land, 

 tho' moft upon bad Ground. 



If you obtain Seed from a diftant and op- 

 pofite Part of the Kingdom, as from the 

 '^orth to the South^ you'll find the greateft 

 Improvement, and the farther Vorthward the 

 greater ftill will be the Advantage. The Rea- 

 fon why Variety of Seed is beneficial to Land, 

 is this: Every Sort of Grain draws from the 

 Earth only its proper Juice for its Nourifh- 

 ment^ fo that the Sowing of the fame Grain 

 often, exhaufts and weakens the Ground, by 

 ftill attracting the fame Kind of Salts, one 

 Crop after another* When you have chofe a 

 proper Seed^ the next Thing to be confider'd, 

 is the agreeable Soils, Seafons^ and Qljanti- 

 titi^s, obferv'd in fowing all Sorts of Corn. 

 The Clay and Sandy Soils are generally e- 



fteem'd 



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