Soli gloria Deo. Certaine rare and nevv inventions for the manuring and improving of all sorts of ground: Published by the author, for the helpe and instruction of all those that having any barraine land or other, and that are desirous to use the same unto their best profit and the publique good.

CHAP. XV. How to manure Ground without Dung, or Soyle.

IF you have neither Soile nor Dung to manure your ground, then you should make choyse of the best and richest Earth that lyeth neere unto you, and provide thereof sufficient, to trimme your Manuring-Barrow therewith, when you would manure your ground, for although you have not Dung sufficient to manute all your ground so plentifully as you desire, vet may you enrich your Barren ground, and in short time make it equall in fertilitie and goodnesse vnto the best ground you have, by well Manuring of the same every yeare with such Earth as is to b••e got in your best ground, if you cannot come by Marle, Chalke, or any other kinde of manure to dresse and inrich the same. Also, there are Manuring stones, and Corroding harrowes and Rakes, that in wet weather being but drawne up and downe your Close will manure your ground, and

fatten the same in some sort. Thirdly, your Seed bar∣row being trimmed onely with some fatte earth, and drawne vp and downe your Field will manure it; but these last are to be practised only vpon arrable ground, because the ground should alwayes bee plowed vp, when you would manure the same, eyther with the Seed barrow, Corroding harrowes, or Manuring-stone, or Corroding rakes, if you have strength enough to draw these Inventions thereon.

Now because some may not conceive this point of Husbandry to be rationall, I will here prove it by one easie, and familiar Example that is common to all: Of all substances Stone and Iron are of the most obdurate natures that are, and are the most vnlikely to yeeld soyle, yet who is it that can deny, that if one powre Water vpon a Stone and whet but a knife or some o∣ther Iron thereon, it begets much soyle; and if so small a matter as this will beget a little soyle vpon those two obdurate and barraine natures, how much may b•• pro∣duced by this point of Husbandry of such substances, that are of soft and soylie natures: I could have pro∣duced the like familiar Examples to prove divers o∣ther points of Husbandry herein declared, but that I should have made my discourse too tedious, neither doe I thinke that there is any of so shallow a capacitie, that may not conceive them to bee Rationall, because in Na••ure they differ not from such points of Husban∣dry that are daily practised, and have beene so often ap∣proved of in every Countrey.