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upon the finallefl- fcruple of animal or vegetable matter, 

 which in any reafonabletime may be brought to rot. 



4. To apply fand, or any filicious matter in great quan- 

 tities to ftrong tough clay, ornot at all. 



5. To expofe chalk, marl, clay, for fome time to the 

 joint adtion of the froft, fun, and air, rather than to at- 

 tempt an immediate union of them with the foil by plough- 

 ing them under. 



6. To fvverve from the cuftomary pradice of performing 

 the whole day's work at plough, or harrow, in one journey 

 of feven and an half or eight hours, and in its place, to divide 

 the day into two journies of four and an half or five hours 

 each. 



7. To lofe no opportunity in cultivating green food for 

 horfes or cattle; and to keep the former in the yard, or 

 ftable, throughout the year. 



8. To fummer fallow the heavy lands for fpring corn, 

 rather than for wheat, and to dung upon the young clovers, 

 in preference to the fallows or the clover leys for wheat. 



9. To make a liberal ufe of the fkims or horfe hoes 

 for cleaning the fallows ; and not to plough fo frequently, 

 but occafionally to plough much deeper than what is gene- 

 rally done. 



10. To leave the fallows that are laid up for fpring corn, 

 as carefully well gripped and water furrowed as if a crop of 

 wheat was in the ground. 



11. To fow particularly early with winter or fpring corn, 

 all thofe light and hollow bottomed lands, which from 

 a fuperabundance of flraw, become abnoxious to the blight 

 or mildew. 



■12. To be careful in feeding the ground, and to guard 

 particularly againft over covering the feed of white ftraw 



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