^^6 Of the Management and 



broke Ground ought to be fown with feverai 

 Sorts of Grain, before it will be fit to receive 

 Wheat : The firft Year you may fow it to 

 Oats, the fecond to Barley, and the third to 

 Bems or Wheat : And Beans and Peafe are ex- 

 cellent to kill the Weeds, and prepare your 

 Arable for the more noble Sorts of Grain,par- 

 ticularly Wheat. It is ufual in many Parrs of 

 England^ to fow Hop, Clover, and Ray Grafs, 

 amongft Wheat or Barley at the fame Time 

 with it ^ this will not only enrich the Ground, 

 by the Soil of Cattle feeding on it, for a con- 

 ftant Tillage, but likewife expeditioufly bring 

 ploughed Ground to a good Sword, if you 

 intend to lay it down to Pafture 5 an Acre 

 of Ground will require ten Pound of Clover- 

 Grafs Seed, French Grafs is alfo a very great 

 Improvement to the Herbage of fome Ground : 

 The Soil for this Seed ought to be a moift 

 Gravel, but not too wet, and pretty rich : It 

 muft not be fed with Sheep. 



Clover Grafs is efteem'd the principal of 

 Grafs, both for the great Improvement it 

 brings by its prodigious Burden, and by the 

 Excellency of the Hay for Food for Cattle : 

 One Acre of it will feed as many Cows as fix 

 Acres of other common Grafs ^ the Milk will 

 be much richer, and more in Qiiantity ^ and 

 it will fatten well. This Grafs may yield 

 three Crops in a Year, and, after ail, be Food 

 for Cattle in the Winter. When it begins to 

 knot, which will be about the Middle oi May^ 

 the tirft Crop, it is to be cut 5 and if it grows 



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