i^z The S^tural Hi/lory 
63. The Sheep- fold h good for this Land winter and fummer, 
they manure it alfo with the Dung-cart, if near home, before the 
fiirring ; but Pidgeons dung is the moft proper for this fort of foil, 
becaufe it is for the moft part very cold Land^ and fo is Mault-duji 
in a larger quantity, bothfown with the winter-corn and ploughed 
in with it, for then it lies warm at the roots of the Corn all win- 
ter^ and correfts the crMi^i/ie5 of the rains mdfrojfs^ makes the 
Corn cover the ground fooner than ordinary, and holds the moi- 
fture of the Spring longer with it ; and in (liort (if thus order- 
ed} brings a certain C'ro/?. It muft not be ftirred or fown very 
wet, for then it proves uneafie both for Man and BeaJI^ nor will 
it be kind for Corn^ it being then very hard to cover it with the 
harrows. It is a good Land for wheat or mifcellan^ when it is fine, , 
efpeciallyif m condition foi zfcalding fallow ^ and accordingly is 
fown with that and barlji by turns to change the grain ; and when 
it falls in a /"e^i" quarter, feldom fails of a good ^i/r/i'e;?, though 
fomtimes it doth not kid very well, which yet pofTibly may be 
prevented by fo wing the Cotfwold Fea^ which I guefs the moft a- 
greeable to this fort o{ ground: But if too wet for thefe, the rath- 
ripe Vetch is fitteft for it. 
64. In fome parts of the County they have another fort of Land 
they call Stone-braJ/j, confifting of a light lean Earth and a fmall 
Rubble-JIone^ or elfe of that and four ground mixt together, which 
are alfo tilled according to their prefent condition ; for if they be 
grafie^ which they other wife caliya'^jfr^^, they/^//on? them pretty 
late, but not fo hot and fcorching as four ground^ becaufe they will 
not bear fuch tillage : But if they be fiary, as they word it, i. e. 
have no skin oxfward upon them, they either fold them in winter^ 
and the fieefs dung with addition of fome haj feeds, will help them 
to get grafie ; or elfe they lay upon them in the beginning of the 
fj^ring^ old thatch or firaw^ or the moft Jiravpy part of the dung- 
hill^ earth out o^ ditches^ the Jlovelingso^ a dirty foz/r/, or the 
like, which fpread thin will afTift the grafs in its growth ; which 
muft necelTarily be had, for they hold it (in fome parts of the 
County at leaft) for a general Rule, that if thefe forts of Land have 
not [ward on them before they are fallowed^ they will by no means 
bring a kind Crop^ but great ftore of Mony-wort ^ May-weed^ 
isrc, 
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