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than it is possible for one person to piretend to, I aliali 

 therefore select a few cases which will embrace all the* 

 soils. These might be multiplied tenfold, but it would 

 swell these papers to too great a length to offer more than 

 a sketch. 



play, 



Mr. Bailey, of Northumberland, speaking from great Clay, 

 experience, says, " that- he has found this operation the 

 most effectual remedy or preventive of the calamity of the 

 red worm and grubs." The advantage of the practice ii 

 the certainty- of full crops; " I do not," says he, " recol- 

 lect an instance where the cultivator was ever disappointed ; 

 and it is this amazing fertility, that has tempted many peo-» • 

 pie to go on with repeated corn crops, until the soil was 

 exhausted." 



Loam. 



On the enclosure of 3tanwell in Middlesex, the allot- Loam, J 

 ments succeeded well under the perfect practice of paring 

 and burning; and ill, where the turf was ploughed without 

 the application of fire*. In the former case the land was 1 

 immediately fit for turnips, tares, barley, and clover. In 

 the latter, the tough wiry bent heath, and dwarf furze, 

 kept the land too light and spungy for any crops; and the 

 farmer will be plagued for many years. The difference be- 

 tween the two methods is more than the value of the free- 

 hold in favour of burning. I have observed in various couiv* 

 ties the same decided preference f. 



In the enclosure of Enfield Chase, (the soil, loam) Dr. 

 Wilkinson states, from experience, that paring and burning 

 saves a very heavy expense; that the ashes possess most 

 fertilizing qualities; that grasses are thus much sooner to 

 be introduced ; thas it is a security againft the ravages of 

 the worm ; and that so far from ruining its staple, the land 

 has afterwards retained its fertility during five successivt 

 crops J, 



* And which will be the case 99 times in 100 universally. 

 •f- MiduUton's Middlesex. | Ibid. 



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