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prehend, having always hitherto looked upon our 

 peat-alhes to be of no value: I therefore made 

 every neceflary enquiry, and foon after my return 

 home built a place to keep peat-alhes dry, and in 

 May or June I had them fown over feme poor 

 land, after the rate of four put-loads to an acre, 

 and I fuppofe in the courfe of a week it could be 

 difcovered to an inch how far they were fown: nay, 

 I have made one piece of three acres fo rich by 

 this method, that I will defy the moft fkilful agri- 

 culturifl to make it richer. Farmers who keep 

 large fires, and burn nothing but peat, (for there is 

 very little befide burnt in this country) will foon 

 have a quantity fufficient to try an experimeat. 

 With regard to a great variety of manures recom- 

 mended by writers on agriculture, however good in 

 theory, they cannot be of much utility in point of 

 pradice. Lime with us is 20s. a load, and of no 

 ufe to meadow land, unlefs mixed with fand or 

 peat-afhes. Soaper's afhes is a tried manure, but 

 we have no foap- boiler between Axbridge, Glafton- 

 bury, Bridge water and the fea, a circuit of fifty 

 miles. Wood afhes, however valuable as a manure, 

 is worth from is. to is. 6d. per bufhcl for another 

 ufe. Indeed, the mentioning of foot, fait, rags, 

 leather, faw^duft, mak-duft, fiQi-fliclls, bones pow-t 

 dered, and articles of like kind, as ufcful manure, 



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