5. How, and for what productions, _Heathy_ Grounds may be improved? And who
they are (if there be any in your Country) that have reduced _Heaths_ into
profitable Lands?
6. What ground _Marle_ hath over head? How deep generally it lieth from the
surface? What is the depth of the _Marle_ it self? What the colour of it?
Upon what grounds it is used? {93} What time of the year it is to be laid
on? How many loads to an Acre? What Grains _Marled_ Land will bear, and how
many years together? How such _Marled_ Land is to be used afterwards, &c?
7. The kinds of Grain or Seed, usual in _England_, being supposed to be
either Wheat, Miscelane, Rye, Barley, Oats, Pease, Beans, Fitches,
Buck-wheat, Hemp, Flax, Rape; We desire to know, what sorts of Grains are
sown in your Country, and how each of these is prepared for Sowing? Whether
by _steeping_, and in what kind of Liquor? Or by mixing it, and with what?
8. There being many sorts of Wheat, as the White or Red Lammas, the bearded
Kentish Wheat, the gray Wheat, the red or gray Pollard, the Ducks-bill
Wheat, the red-eared-bearded Wheat, &c. And so of Oats, as the common
Black, Blue, Naked, Bearded in _North-wales_: and the like of Barley,
Pease, Beans, &c. The Enquiry is, which of these grow in your Country, and
in what Soyl; and which of them thrive best there; and whether each of them
require a peculiar Tillage; and how they differ in goodness?
9. What are the chief particulars observable in the choice of Seed-Corn,
and all kinds of Grain; and what kinds of Grain are most proper to succeed
one another?
10. What Quantity of each kind is sown upon the Statute-Acre? And in what
season of the Moon and year 'tis sowed?
11. With what instruments they do Harrow, Clod and Rowl, and at what
seasons?
12. How much an Acre of good Corn, well ordered, generally useth to yield,
in very good, in less good, & in the worst years?
13. Some of the common Accidents and Diseases befalling Corn in the growth
of it, being Meldew, Blasting, Smut; what are conceived to be the Causes
thereof, & what the Remedies?
14. There being other Annoyances, the growing Corn is exposed to, as Weeds,
Worms, Flies, Birds, Mice, Moles, &c. how they are remedied?
15. Upon what occasions they use to cut the young Corn in the Blade, or to
seed it; and what are the benefits thereof?
16. What are the seasons and waies of Reaping and Ordering each sort of
Grain, before it be carried off the Ground? {94}
17. What are the several waies of preserving Grain in the Straw, within and
without doors, from all kind of Annoyance, as Mice, Heating, Rain, &c?
18. What are the waies of separating the several sorts of Grain from the
Straw, and of dressing them?
19. What are the waies of preserving any stores of separated Grain, from
the Annoyances they are obnoxious to?