1 90 Of Sr. Foin. Chap.XIL 



When St. Foin is grown old, and worn out, as 'tis 

 faid to be when the artificial Pafture is gone, and the 

 natural Pafture is become infufficientfor the Number 

 of Plants that are on it, to be maintained •, and is fo 

 poor, that it produces no profitable Crop, fo that 

 the Ground is thought proper to be plow'd up, and 

 fown with Corn, in order to be replanted (a) ; the 

 moil effectual Way to bring it into Tilth fpeedily, 

 is, to plow it up in the Winter* with a Four-coulterd 

 Plough, and make it fit forTurnepsby the following 

 Seafon; and if the Turneps be well ho'd, and efpeci- 

 ally if fpent by Sheep on the Ground, 'twill be in 

 excellent Order to be fown with Barley the following 

 Spring; and then it may be drill'd with St. Foin 

 amongft the Barley. 



To return to the Benefit Land receives by having 

 been planted fome Years with St. Foin : All the Ex- 

 perienc'd know, that Land is enriched by it; but they 

 do not agree upon the Reafon why. 



They agree as to the c 'Ot/, but not the Aiqti. 



Some are of Opinion, 'tis becauie the St. Foiri 

 takes a different Sort of Nourifliment to that of 



(a) Or if you perceive, that there is a competent Number of 

 Plants alive, and tolerably fingle; be they never fo poor, you 

 may recover them to a fiourifhing Condition in the following 

 manner, without replanting ; Pulverize the whole Field in Inter- 

 vals of about. Three Feet each, leaving betwixt every Two of 

 diem Four Feet Breadth of Ground unplow'd. When the Turf 

 of thefe Intervals, being cut by the Four couiter'd Plough, is 

 perfectly rotten, one Furrow made by any fort of Plough will 

 hoe one of thefe Intervals, by changing the whole Surface of it. 

 The poorer the Land is, the more Hoekiga will be required ; and 

 the oftener 'tis ho'd, with proper Interrr.imous the firk Year, the 

 ftronger the St. Foin will become, and the more Years it will 

 continue good, without a Repetition of Hoeing. 



The Expence of this cannot be great ; becaufejhe F'.?ugh, in 

 hoeing an Acre in this manner Nine limes, travels no fa: "the* 

 than it mull to plow an Acre once in the common Manner. 



I need not tell the Owner, that the Earth of thefe Intervals 

 tnuft be made level, befoiethe St, Fgin can be mowed* 



Corn 



