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this earth is very fine and foft, and if mixt 

 with water has a fait tafte. 



If the former ingredients cannot be ea- 

 fily procured, then burnt clay may be ufed 

 in a double quantity to that required of 

 afhes J and mixt with the earth, for bor^ 

 ders, as other manures. 



C H A P. V. 



Of Burning of Clay for the Improvemetit 

 of Land. 



TH E turf muft be taken oft from a 

 piece of clay-ground, about two in- 

 ches thick, with a breaft-plough, and be 

 reared up or turned till dry, then laid in 

 heaps with faggots of furz or ling under 

 them, in order to burn them j when they 

 are red through with fire, throw upon each 

 heap a barrow full of earth taken from 

 ant-hills, pond-bank^, or any other place 

 wdiere it may be beft fpared. Sometimes 

 it happens that the clay laid on the fires is 

 burnt into lumps, in fuch cafe it muft be 

 beaten veiy fmall with flails before it is 

 ufed in borders. 



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