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with all forts of Pf^heat, Mifcellan^ Barlji, isrc. having the fame ///- 
lage^ and requiring to be kept high, and to lie dry and warm as 
the Claji doth, only its moft proper manure is the rotteneff dung 5 
and as they fow 5e^;25- next after Wheat m clay grounds, in this 
they judge Peas a more agreeable grain^ and take care in their 
feed-time that the weather be fair, and fetled ; for if there happen 
but afmart (bower prefently after they have fown, it will bind 
fo faft, that the feed in great part will be utterly loft ; whereas if 
they have but one or two dry nights, all fucceeds well enough. 
61. If Red land ^ whereof there are fome quantities in the 
North and Wtft of Oxford-Jhire^ it muft have its tillage as foon in 
the year as poffibly may be, before the clay^ where they are in 
competition, becaufe it will not endure the fcorching tillage that 
day will do, and therefore muft have it before the Sun get to near 
the Qrah : if it be moift when fallovped^ fo it be not too wet, it is 
the better. This never requires a double ftirring^ nor muft be 
made too fineznd lights for then it runs to May-weed^ or Mathern^ 
as they call it ; yet the manure^OY clay does very well with it, but 
the mixt manure of Horfe-dung and Covp-dung together, they fay 
does beft of any : Nor is the Sheef-fold amifs cither Winter or 
S umjji er ^w\\\c\y muft all be applyed before ftirring^ and ploughed 
in ; if for wheats about the latter end of/^/y, or beginning of Au-^ 
guft \ if for /^^2r/ji, later in the je^7r, as the time and feafon gives 
leave. This Land, like clay^ bears wheats mifcellan^barly^ and feas^ 
in their order very well, and lies fallow every other year^ where it 
falls out of their hitching, 
62, There is another fort of ground in this County which they 
call Sour-land^ which muft have its tilth according to its ftate and 
condition when they fet about it ; if it have a ong fwarth on it, 
then they caft to give it Tl fallow^ when the Sun is prety well en- 
lex' & C ancer and this they call z fcalding-fallow^ which kills the 
grafs roots, and makes the Land fine : But if it be lights and as 
they term it, hath //7//g on the back., they either leave it for 
cooler tillage^ or plough it early in the year as foon as their clay is 
fallowed.znd then there w'lW fpring fome Ipiring-grnfs that will keep 
it from fcorching in the Summer ; for if they fufter it to be fiorch- 
ed when it is light before, all their Art and Manure will never pro- 
cure a good CroJ) of it. 
Hh 63, Thf: 
