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And as the Oats begin to come 'up , then fow it 

 with Clover-feed (vvbkh is in it felf excellent Ma- 

 nure ) for you need not beflov any nevv drcfling up- 

 on the ground , and by that time you have cut your 

 Gates , you will find a de licare graflc grown up un- 

 derneath , upon hich if you pieafe , you may graze 

 with Cattle or Horfe all than year after , and the next 

 year take your crop as before at pleafure* 



To prevent milhke , I mutt give this advertife- 

 ment , that whereas Sir Richard mfl on commends 

 heathy ground , he is not to be underllood , of 

 fuch dry and barren ground without its belt Manure 

 by chalk , lime , and the like artifices of hulkindry. 

 For othenvife ic has failed in the growth & improve- 

 ment thereby expected. Mr. Blith commends ground 

 naturally good , betwixt ten and twenty flail lings an 

 Acre : giving this generall Rule, that no land can 

 be too good for Clover that, is not too good for Corn. 



Hempe and Flax are vfed to have the fame culture, 

 and the belt hufbandry that I have obferved of them 

 has been in Staff or d^ire , where t bis procedure is 

 generally obferved. About the beginning or middle 

 of A 'prill the flax feed is fow en upon new broken 

 ground , immediately upon its being broken up.The 

 feed they eirher have from their own Crop, or buy it 

 from a warmer Country : Mr. Blith reports the true 

 Eafl-Country feed to be farre the beft , who for tryall 

 of both , fpwed on the fame land 3 the Ridge or Mid- 

 dle with our Country feed > and both the furrowes, 

 with Dutch or eaft-country feed , (fuch as is bought 

 in the feedfmens (hops at BlUirgfgate in Laxdvv) the 

 effefl was that our feed, though on the ridge it had the 

 advantage of the ground, was encompatfed with the 

 putchj as with a wall about it , fo much the Eafterne 



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