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ON MANURES. 



the part burnt yielded crops uniformly better than the 

 others. It has been down to grass several years ; the burnt 

 part is quite free from rushes, and covered with a good 

 sweet herbage ; the other part full of rushes, and the herb- 

 age coarse*." . 



Mr. Simpson says, " I ploughed ten acres of moor, on a 

 lime stone bottom, in the part most free from ling, without 

 burning, and I have had sufficient cause to repent it ; for I 

 have not had even one middling crop fince ; and although 

 laid down with seeds, they have by no means so good an 

 appearance as those sown the same year on similar soils 

 after burning, although 1 have expended as much lime and 

 manure on this as on any part of the farm f 1 



Near Orton, on a peat moss, six or eight inches deep, on. 

 a stiff bluish clay ; the only vegetable produce spongy 

 moss, bent grass, dwarf rush, &c. wet and not drained; 

 pared three inches deep, and burnt in the spring ; then , 

 manured with thirty bushels of lime an acre; ploughed 

 slightly for turnips, which were not hoed. They were worth 

 ,31. an acre; and being sown with oats, produced seventy 

 bushels per acre J." 



Miss Graham was the first that pared and burnt moss in 

 Monteith. Several acres, that were burnt above forty 

 years ago, continue to carry a close sward of green gras* 

 at this day, without a single pile of heath §. 



" Of all the methods of breaking up peaty soils which I 

 have practised or seen, the best mode is paring and burning. 

 I have seen various methods on several thousand acres, but 

 none ever equalled this j|." 



(To be continued in our next.) 



* North-Riding Report. ■ f Ibid. 



| Todd. Society's Transactions. § Perth Report, 



. |j. Bailey. 



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