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fhape of a great part of the manor in this diftrict, 
the great farmers will be perhaps obliged to take a 
great part of their arable land at fome diftance from 
home, yet it will have the additional advantage of 
being near its xatural dunghill, the fheep-down: 
and as fuch land will of courfe be valued low on 
account of its diftance, the owners will be enabled 
to bear the expence of removing barns to it; and 
in effect, “ bring the land near home,” by reducing 
the trouble and expence of carrying the dung out, 
and the corn home. 
PARING AND BURNING. 
Parine and burning land is not in general ufe 
in this diftrict of Wiltfhire, in preparing old arable 
land for a crop, but is frequently, indeed almoft 
univerfally ufed, in breaking up new down lands; 
and as the ufe of this practice is defended by many, 
as not only the cheapeft, but as the beft way of pre- 
paring fuch lands for the plough, and by others 
totally condemned, on the maxim often quoted in 
this diftrict, that “ however good this hufbandry 
“ may be for fathers, it is ruin to fons:” it is an 
objeft of very great confequence, to endeavour to 
find out where the truth lies between thefe two pofi- 
tive affertions, by firft enquiring whether ¢his mode of 
bufbandry be in itfelf good; and next, whether it be pro- 
per for the purpofe for which it is ufed in this diftrid. 
And, 
