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and laying the Earth ftill upwards to the ridge') by which means 
both Land and Corn lie dryer, warmer, and healthier, and the 
fucceeding Crop becomes more free from weeds. After it is thus 
preparedtithey fow it with Wheat^whxch. is its proper ^r^i/z ; and if 
it be a ftrong ftift* Clay^ with that they call Cone-wkeat : and the 
next year after (it being accounted advantagious in all tillage to 
change the grain) with Beans ; and then ploughing in the bean- 
bruj/jzt All' Saints^ the next year with Barlji; and amongft the 
feveral forts of thzt gxain^ if the Land be rank, with that they 
C7A\fj>r at -Early ; and then the fourth year it lies fallow^ when they 
give it Summer tilth again, and fow it with Winter Corn as before. 
But at moft places where their Land is caft into three Fields^ it lies 
/^//on? in courfe every /i?ir^/ year, and is fown but two: the firft 
with Wheats if the Land be good, but if mean with Mifcellan^ and 
theother with Early and Pulfe promifcuouOy. And at {omeplaces 
where it lies out of their hitching^ i. e. their Land for Pulfe, they 
fow it but every fecond year, and there ufually two Crops Wheats 
and the third Early ^ always being careful to lay it up by ridging 
againfi: winter ; Clay Lands requiring to be kept high, and to lie 
warm and dry, ftill allowing for Wheat and Early three plowings-, 
and fomtimes four, but for other grains feldom more than one. 
When at any time they fow Peas on this Land, the beft Husband- 
men will chufe the Vale-gray as moft proper for it ; and if Fetches^ 
the Gore or Pebble-vetch : But if fo cold a weeding Clay that unfit 
for thefe, then they improve it with Ray-grafs. 
59. As for the Chalk: lands of the Chiltern-hills^ though it re- 
quires not to belaid in ridges in refpeft of drynefs^ yet of warmth 
it doth: when defigned for Wheat, which is but feldom, they 
give it the fame tillage with Clay^ only laying it in jour or fix fur- 
rowed Lands, and foiling it with the beft mould, or dung but half 
rotten, to keep itfrom /'i;?^/i;2^,which are its moft proper manures; 
and fo for common Early and winter Vetches, with which it is much 
more frequently fown, thefe being found the more fmtdbXe grains. 
But if it be of that pooreft fort they call white-land, nothing is fo 
proper as ray-grafs mixt with Non-fuch^ or Melilot Trefoil^ accord- 
ing as prefer ibed in Chap. ^. 33. 
60. If the Land be of that fort they call Maumy^ confifting of 
a mixture of White-clay and Chalk:, and fomwhat of Sand, which 
caufes it to work fo ftiort if aiiy thing dry, jt is commonly fown 
with 
