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*' of thefe fields were very different, though 

 *' no larger ; they each confifted of fome very 

 *' dry land, and iome altogether as wet. The 

 " firir. was a poor, lean, flatey ground ; the 

 ** latter a tough, moory, clofe earth, mixed 

 *' with an imperfect marie, which held water 

 *' like a difh, I had a pit funk in the moft 

 l depending part, to drain off the water ; and 

 <t ordered the earth to be fpread on the flatey 

 *' ground at a proper time. As I faid, the 

 ?'_land was ' m good order the May following; 

 *' I therefore ordered the moid: parts of the 

 <f fields to be fown with rye-grafs, and the 

 ** dry part with trefoil and burnet; which, 

 *' as fbon as pretty full blown, I ordered to be 

 ' mowed, made into hay, and fet up in a 

 *' rick, in a comer of the upper field. The 

 *' fields to be then laid up until O^ober, or 

 * 6 until the grafs had done growing ; then to 

 *' turn into the faid fields half-a-dozen mares 

 * and their foals, which I had at that time, 

 " with Tome young cattle, to have the run of 

 *' the laid thirty acres during the winter. I 

 " alfb ordered a li'nny, or hovel, to he creeled 

 " in the moft fheltery part of the fields, large 

 ** enough to fhelter a dozen horfes under it, 

 " for them to go inro at pleafure ; a rack to 

 * be put up; and, when the grafs was nearly 

 " eat up, to cut the rick, and fill the rack 

 *' once or twice a-day, as might be neceffary; 

 *' alib to- carry ilr.uv to litter the hovel, 

 < 4 which (hould be -cleaned out once in a week 



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