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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67755	The improvement improved by a second edition, or, The great improvement of lands by clover, or, The wonderful advantage by, and right management of clover by Andrew Yarranton ...	Yarranton, Andrew, 1616-1684.	1663 (1663)	Wing Y16; ESTC R9553	21,827	63

profit of Clover-Grass we now wonder that so great an improvement was no sooner discovered and justly impute it to our many miscarriages in our first management of it It was no small incouragement to us when we heard and saw you had better success then we at first had especially when we saw you so ready to communicate your experience for the publick good to comply therefore with your desires and my own inclination to promote improvements I have sent you some remarques of mine about this Husbandry of Clover-Grass amongst many more and perhaps more considerable which might be added I have observed the outlandish Seed to bring somewhat the broader leaf and of a deeper green but I know not whether it be constantly so nor whether it be better if it be I can assure you from experience that to steep the Seed which to other grain is thought helpful is hurtful for much of the Seed will swell and break and that in short time Drie grounds and light are conceived most proper for this Seed for they are soon and easily made mellow otherwise the Clover would not take root to any purpose but it 's past doubt with me that if strong Land and marley ground could be made fine enough as they use to speak that is small it would bring the best and most durable Clover for we see it naturally growing on such Land and for the preparing such Land for this end I shall adventure to offer something before I conclude Trial would also be made in boggie grounds for such Land once drained is exceeding light so that if excess of moisture rot not the Clover it must needs grow very swiftly besides this succulent and swift growing Grass may possibly prove a secret kind of draining to the Land and I do the rather incourage to this trial because I have this year in a kind of curiosity sowed Turnips on such Land with good increase and which may be thought strange not any of them rotted though there was no drain to the ground The usual time of sowing is with Barley or Oats which if late sowed indangers the Seed by drought I therefore for trial sowed several Acres early with pease which grows well The usual way of covering it when sown is with a bush of thorns which yet will bury some and leave more above ground to the birds to prevent both inconveniences I having first sowed the Seed caused lime newly slacked to be thinly sowed upon it and the Clover grows well and probably the lime is a further advantage then the first preservation To fill the ground full of Seed is now agreed the best way though perhaps the bottome of the reason is scarce yet thought on that the keeping the earth moist by its shade doth much good is certain and that the keeping out other Grass doth more good is as certain but how it keeps out other Grass is the question to which I cannot think it a sufficient answer to say it doth it by covering the surface of the earth but believe the cause is a little more remote from common view viz. that the greater number of Roots there are shot down into the earth the more do they both dispose the earth by a subtle kind of ferment or motion for their proper nourishment and also the more strongly draw away that nourishment when prepared whereby other Grass is prevented We see things of long and spreading roots do much mellow Land below the surface especially if they be many together for a few may be over-mastered by the hardness of the parts of the earth Coppice-woods thrive well and the thicker the more thriving in such grounds where single bushes would not thrive at all which also takes away the objection of such as may suppose the ground will scarce nourish so many Perhaps you may judge these kind of reasons too fanciful but I purpose to indulge my own conceipt so far as to sow twenty pound weight upon an Acre this next year Sowing it in rowes and hoing it once or twice in a summer would make it prosper incredibly but that the ordinary Husbandman will never undergo the trouble of till some more expeditious instrument then the common Hoe is found out which to an ingenious man would be a work of no great difficulty The Spring is the common season of sowing which because it ordinarily succeeds must not be found fault with but though that be a good time I do not think it 's the best for the Autumn besides that it is seldome or never accompanied with drought gives the greatest advantage of mellowing the Land by ploughing it immediately after the grain is off especially if such preceding crop were Gray-pease Buck-wheat some broad-leafed Plant for such do generally most conduce to mellow and meliorate Land And this is the way I would offer for bringing stiff Lands in order for Clover And I wish some ingenious man would sow some if but a little for trial sake with his winter Corn for I dare assure him if no extream frost do suddenly catch it he shall finde it the best time And here I think it proper to propose the sowing of such Lands with Clover as lie in common Fields and such a great part of our Lands in England are by reason whereof Hay and pasture-grounds are wanting in many places and for remedy they are fain to sow a great part of their Land with horse-meat and that at a great charge which the Team devouring next Winter and the Family most or all the bread-Corn the poor Farmer can hardly pay his rent and is always kept necessitous I think truly that for such Lands Clover is the greatest if not only improvement for by sowing Clover either with or without his winter Corn the year after the fallow he shall that year not onely have excellent fodder far beyond what ordinarily comes with Barley or Oates but also the Clover will have gotten so good rooting that the next winters grazing shall not destroy so much as it doth usally that which is sown in spring so that without further charge he shall have a second years profit to be imployed either for Hay or grazing as his occasions best serve It 's easie here to foresee the objection against this course viz. that so soon as the Corn is out of the field the Clover is exposed to all the neighbourhood and it 's as easily answered that though that be true yet 1. You have the Summers profit 2. Your Land by such grazing shall be hugely improved even to recompence you sufficiently for loss of your Clover so that against your next tillage after the next fallow you shall need little or no Soyl. Having thus considered the best ways and ●ime for sowing Clover it will be now fit to look to the use of it Cutting and giving in racks green is a known good way and raiseth much soyle to make it well into Hay requires a long and dry season yet not vehement hot