of OXFO%T>^S HI%E. 24.5 
in December^ they /^//orr them as theiryB'-'^^r^/^ direct, and if in ei- 
ther of the twolaft months^ are called Winter -fallows^ and are ne- 
ver ftirred at all, but fowed with Barly upon the fecond earth in 
the beginning of fowing^ becaufe then they work mod kindly, and 
I will bear cold weather better than when more finely Thefe 
Lands will alfo bear Wheat and Mifcellan indifferently well in a kind 
yyear^ but not{o wtWzs claj^ four-ground^ or red-land; but they 
bear a fine round barlji and thin fkin'd, efpecially if they be kept 
! in heart : They lie every other yezr fallow (as other Lands) except 
j where they fall among the Peas quarter, and there after Feas they 
j are fown with ^<3fr/)/, and lie but once in four years. Thefe are 
fownalfo many times with Dills or Lentils^ and w^hen quite worn 
out, or fo poor that they will bear nothing elfe to advantage, they 
are yet fit for Raj-grafs mixt with Trefoil^ as prefcribed above in 
the Chapter of Plants. 
66. There is a fort of tillage they fomtimes ufe on thefe Lands 
in the Ipring time, which they call /Ireakfallowing; the manner 
is, to plough one furrow and /eave one, fo that the Land is but 
half of it ploughed, each ploughed furrow lying on that which 
. is not fo : when it is ftirred it is then clean ploughed, and laid fo 
fmooth, that it will come at fowing time to be as plain as before. 
This is done when thefe Lands are not ftvardj enough to bear clean 
tillage^ nor callow or light enough to lie to get fward^ the intent is 
to keep the Sun from fcorching them too much : But in moft 
places they think this way of tillage wears their Land too fa{l,and 
therefore feldom ufe it. 
67. As for fony Land^ whereof there is but little can be pro- 
perly fo called but in the Chiltern Country^ they give it for Wheats 
Peas, and Barly^ much the fame tillage and manure^ they do Clay 
in other places, adding the advantage of chalking \u which they 
have not elfewhere for then clay grounds^ by w^hich they much 
enrich it for fome years, fo that it bears excellent wheats barly^ 
peas ^ of which laft thofe they call Hampfiire-kids, if the Land 
be new chalkt, are counted moft agreeable ; where by the way let 
it be noted, that I faid but for fome years, for when once the 
r;zdf;7«re by chalk is worn out, the Land is fcarce recoverable by 
any other, whence 'tis Proverbialhexe^^s well as fome other parts 
of England^ That chalkt Landtmkcs a rich Father bat a poor Son^ 
thereby intimating the ruin of the Land in the end, it becoming 
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