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As foon as the autumnal rains are faU'tt^ 

 which very likely will be before Novem- 

 ber 3 thirty holes fhould be made on every 

 acre : Which number would be too many 

 by near a third, were the produce not to be 

 educated to the heights mentioned 5 by which 

 means I might fay near one third is got pru-^^ 

 dently in number, and more than a third 

 in good quality and value afterward, upon 

 every acre, than when as ordinarily ma- 

 naged. 



Let like wife every hole be made fix 

 foot diameter, and four fpade-bit deep ; the 

 earth thence taken may be thrown in a- 

 gain promifcuoufly 5 ftrewing by hand at 

 the fame inftant, a fmall quantity of ftraw^ 

 or ftubble at proper intervals, to be equal- 

 ly intermixt ; in order to keep the earth 

 from too compad: a reunion. By this 

 means the earth of every hole will lie near 

 a foot higher, even when fettl'd, than the 

 area of the field ; which will be a great 

 means to caufe the horizontal roots of the 

 Oaks to enter, when time comes^ the fu- 

 perficies of the adjoining foil, wherein the 

 rieheft pabulum for them lies ; and feafi: 



P themfelvet 



