7 o ON PLANTING 



THE competition for preparing the feeds 

 to vegetate is foft pit land (fharp land will 

 not anfwer) andfrefh grains from the brew- 

 houfe ; the fand mould be got in fummer, 

 and made very dry, and laid by until 

 wanted ; the grains muft be frefh from, 

 the brewhoufe, but muft be fpread, turned, 

 and dried until they are juft of a clammy 

 moifture ; then they mould be mixed with 

 dry fand in equal parts, until there is a 

 fufficiency for the quantity of feed to be 

 prepared. 



AFTER the fand and grains are mixed, 

 they muit be rubbed between the hands, 

 and laid in a heap for four days, then, 

 turned over every day for a week, then 

 let them lay four days in the heap ; and 

 if then there is no mouldinefs, but a 

 fine clammy moiflure, it is fit for ufe ; 

 but if there is the leaft appearance of 

 mould, it muit be turned twice a day for 

 three days, and then lay four days more ; 

 and if then there is no mould it may be 

 ufed without danger, for here is nothing 



that 



