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per Season he is for plowing of it the fifth time,and sowing of it with Wheat, having first dung’dit well.

He gave me Directions for preparing of theDung, of which I shall acquaint you before Ifinish this Letter.

By this Method, he fays, I shall have a Depthof Mould equally good but I must not plowto the bottom of the good Mould, when I cometo sow, whereby the Seed which falls into theFurrow, will have good Earth below it for Nou-rishment ; whereas the common Farmers, byneglecting this, lose a great part of it, by itsfalling upon the cold barren Clay in the bottomof their Furrows. He gives me Encouragementto expect a great Crop of Wheat by this Me-thod, even from what is now the poorest. Whenthe Wheat is cut down, he advises the plowingof it, and letting it lie all Winter, and in theSpring to sow it with Barley and Rye Grass,which is call’d with them Everlasting Grafs. Inorder to prepare it for the Barley and Grafs, headvises the plowing of it twice ; first very deep,after which, to break the Clods, harrow it tillvery fine, then plow it a second time, laying itas flat as you can ; sow it first with the Barley,and with the Grafs, before the last harrowingjs finish’d. He acknowledges that this will putme to a great Expence, but assures me that theCrops of Wheat and Barley, and the vast Cropsof Grafs, which I may expect for a great manyYears, without being at more Expence, willfully answer my Trouble.

He gave me the following Directions for ma-king a large Dunghill in or near the Field.

To chuse a plain Spot of Ground, and thereto dig a Pit sloping down to the middle, then

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