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or ten days, and a dung-heap formed of the 

 " fame. In this manner the cattle ihould re- 

 44 main until the end of February, or until 

 44 "the grafs began to fpring. 



44 Whilft this is doing, another of the fields 

 44 fhould be ploughed and got ready to fow in 

 " like manner the following May. As the 

 44 extent of the pafture will be increafed, fo 

 44 may the number of cattle to be wintered on 

 44 it; and, at the beginning of the fecond win- 

 44 ter, there will be dung enough to manure 

 44 one of the fields, which I would have 

 44 fpread on the upper field in December or 

 44 January at farthefl ; by which means, I 

 44 hope to have another good crop of grafs. 

 44 Thus are you to go on year after year, and 

 44 field after field, until the whole has been 

 '" well cleaned, cultivated, and drerTed. 



" I do not expect it will anfwer to let it lie 

 44 fgr grafs more than two or three years ; 

 " therefore, iii the winter after the fir ft year, 

 4 I would have dung fpread on the field or 

 44 fields that were mowed, which will give en- 

 4< couragement to the next crop, and leave it 

 44 fufficiently in heart to bear a crop of barley 

 44 or oats, with which I would have you 

 44 fow, either clover, rye-grafs, or trefoil, as 

 4 beft fuits the land, taking but one crop of 

 " corn to two of grafs, which cannot tail 

 14 of improving thote lands, as 1 would have 

 4 them con (tan tly fed in the winter as above 

 * directed ; and the dung that is made hy the 

 4 44 cattle 



