3 6 0/ Tillage. Chap. V. 



I have feen furprifing Effects from Ground, after 

 being kept unexhaufted, by plowing with common 

 Ploughs for Two whole Years running : And I am 

 confident, that the Expence of this extraordinary 

 Tillage and Fallow will not, in many Places, amount 

 to above half the Expence of a drefling with Dung; 

 and if the Land be all the Time kept in our Sort of 

 little Ridges of the Size moft proper for that Purpofe, 

 the Expence of plowing will be diminifhed one half; 

 befides the Advantage the Earth of fuch Ridges 

 hath, of being friable in Weather which is too moifl 

 for plowing the fame Land on the Level. 



I have made many Trials of fine Dung on the 

 Rows •, and, notwithstanding the Benefit of it, I have, 

 for thefe feveral Years laft paft, left it off, finding 

 that a little more Hoeing will fupply it at a much 

 lefs Expence, than that of fo fmall a Quantity of 

 Manure, and of the Hands neceffary to lay it on, 

 and of the Carriage. 



CHAP. V. 



Of Tillage. 



Tillage is breaking and dividing the Ground by 

 Spade, Plough, Hoe, or other Instruments, 

 which divide by a Sort of Attrition (or Contufion) 

 as Dung does by Fermentation (a), 



[a) Neque enim aliud eji Colere quam Refofoere, & Ferment are 

 Terram. Columella. 



And fince the artificial Pafture of Plants is made and increas'd 

 by Pulveration, 'tis no Matter whether it be by the Ferment of 

 Dung, the Attrition of the Plough, the Contufion of the Roller, 

 ©r by any other Inftrument or Means whatfoever, except by Fire, 

 which carries away all the Cejnent of that which is burnt. 



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