| Description | Their terminal visitation being so late and the writer's small concerns hot set kept him from seeing his brother and the rest of his relations this summer. Upon enquiry he finds no 'slutch' to be used in his part of the country for the manuring of land, only sea-ooze. The larger and broader it is, the better, some lay it in heaps for two months beore they use it; others plough it in the furrows as soon as they bring it on the land. This latter is thought to be the safest and best way, and the thicker it is ploughed the more increase can be expected. This account he had from a relation of his, one Pierce Hughes, who lives as near the seas as his brother does, and by using this way has the best and cleanest barley in the country. These last two years he sent his brother some fir seed; if he wants any this year let him inform the writer.
Last post he received a letter from brother Thomas which gives an account of the sad conditions he has been and still is in at Plymouth |