The practical farmer, or, The Hertfordshire husbandman: containing many new improvements in husbandry ... / By William Ellis.

  • William Ellis
Date:
1732
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    way of managing the Seed, by letting it lie all Night in Brine that will jail fwim an Egg, and the next Morning to lift Lime over it, and low it. But one informed me, he committed a great miftake, in this way, for having expended the greateft part of his Brine, to make it good on a fudden, he threw in fome Chamber-lye, which fo flea'd and ffcript the Skin of his Wheat, that it lpoil’d the Crop, and he had not above twenty Ears on half an Acre of Land: This Perlon fays, he never knew Brine alone do this. One alfo fays, that he only puts Urine on the Seed, about enough to juft wet it all, then lifts Lime on it, and fows di¬ rectly ; by this he fays, he never has fmutty Wheat. He fays farther, that fome have irnutty Wheat, by uling old powder’d Lime, inftead of Stone Lime; and he is of Opinion, that there is more lecurity in the Lime than the Stale. Another Farmer of about forty Years j Experience, has left off Brining, and follows this way asbeft : He threw live Bufhels of Wheat on the Ground, and then run one large Garden-Pot of black Ditch Water, and as much Urine mix’d together, over the fame; then lifted about a Peck of Lime, and mix’d it with the Shovel, and lowed it on about two. Acres of Clover-Lay thus .* jfirft on the rough Ground as the Plough left it in broad Lands, hall the Seed, which