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found to thrive well in fuch a foil, when once 

 fairly eflablimed. 



If the ground be in ley, or in coarfe pafturage, 

 and of a quality capable of producing a crop of 

 oats, the field mould be prepared by fuch a crop. 

 After the removal of the oats from the ground, it 

 fhould be ploughed as deep as the foil will admit, 

 if under nine or ten inches, either by fingle or 

 double ploughing. It may lye in this furrow till 

 March, and may then be harrowed flat. It muft 

 be ploughed again in April, at which time the 

 acorns are to be fown. 



In fuch a cafe as that under confideration, we 

 would recommend the cropping of the ground 

 among the young oaks for a few years : fuch 

 cropping will defray the expenfe both of fowing 

 the oaks, and of keeping the ground clean among 

 them, and will greatly promote their growth, pro- 

 vided the land be not overcropped. The crops in- 

 troduced muft be, not of a feourging nature, but 

 fuch as lettuces, turnips, potatoes, beans, and the 

 like. Carrots and cabbage are more fevere crops, 

 and mould, if poflible, be avoided. The land 

 mould be manured for thefe crops, as in or- 

 dinary gardening. The firft crop may be turnip 

 with dung : Beans to follow, without dung : Af- 

 ter the beans, a crop of lettuces without dung, 

 which would generally leave the land very fit to 

 be laid down in grafs in the following feafon with- 



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