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that the plough scalps the rock; yet no diminution of soil 

 is in the least discovered**'* 



Sand. 



u Upon sand T have tried paring and burning, but un» Sand, 

 successfully f." But Colonel Vavasour speaks* or it fav6ur- 

 ably on this soil, and from experience. Query, whether 

 this difference of result did not hold to their courses of 

 crops? The former speaks, in another case, of two crops 

 of wheat, and oue of oats. The latter, 1. turnips, <2. buck 

 wheat, 3. seeds. If Mr. Wright looked on sand for corn, 

 and not grass, no wonder he was unsuccessful. 



Chalk. 



Mr. Boys, near Sandwich, in 1783, pared and burnt Chaifc. 

 twenty acres of loose dry chalk mould, four inches deep, . 

 on a hard chalk rock, value Is. per acre, and sowed barley 

 and sainfoin in March. His whole expense, barley crop 

 included, 53l. Produce sixty-six quarters of barley, at 

 26s., 861.: his profit 33b, or the fee-simple of the land at 

 twenty-two years purchase, the price at that time. The 

 sainfoin took well}. In 1795, he writes to the author of 

 the periodical work just quoted, " Should any of your 

 friends, who so much condemn paring and burning, come 

 into Kent this summer, I can show them several scores of 

 acre3 of wheat, barley, oats, and sainfoin, now growing on 

 land which has several times undergone the operation :-** 

 the crops of sufficient value to purchase the land at more 

 than forty years purchase, at a fairly estimated rent, before 

 the improvement. This will be ocular demonstration to 

 them." 



Peat 



Twenty years past a field of coarse rushy land was broken p ert ^ 

 tip ; part pared and burnt, the rest not. Whilst in tillage, 



• Mr; Wright. * Ibid. $ Annul*. 



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