jg% "on manures. 



is to pare along the centre of the lands a width sufficient tot 

 the heaps and burning; to move the sods, in order to 

 plough the breadth ; then to plough it ; to make the heaps 

 for burning on the land so ploughed; by whieh means all 

 the land may b« ploughed before the ashes are spread, and 

 by this means kept on the surface : two material objects 

 being attained ; 1st, the exposition of the ashes ; and, 2d, 

 they are not ploughed to the bottom of the furrow, but kept 

 on the surface to combine with the land, and early sinking 

 prevented. 



Evenness of spreading is always a material object, what- 

 ever may be the manure. 



The universal practice (except in one very singular in- 

 stance) is to plough the first time very shallow. A multi- 

 plicity of observations have convinced the farmers in almost 

 every part of the kingdom, that these ashes have a ten- 

 dency to sink ; and the aim has therefore been to keep them 

 near the surface by shallow tillage, especially at first. The 

 method of ploughing before they are spread entirely obviates 

 the necessity of such a practice; 



7. Seajon* 



Season of the As the work can only be^done in dry weather, it is usually 

 * eaI * * begun in March, in which month the NE. winds are more 



drying than at any other time. When the space to be 

 burned is large, it is continued till September; and as the 

 ashes are the better for exposition to the atmosphere, any 

 crop may be put in that best suits the farmer's couve* 

 niency. 



8. Soil. 



As the quantity of the manure thus gained depends en- 

 tirely «u the depth of paring, I pass on to the consideration 

 of soils on which the practice may be recommended. 

 Soil* • I have tried it myself but on two soils ; on mountain peat, 



and on middling loam : on both these I had entire success. 

 But the information, which the respectable society I address 

 look for, must be derived from more varied experience 



than 



