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tillage by previously paring and burning, to be from thirteen 

 pence per acre, the original value, to six or eight shillings 

 per acre. 



Mr. Wright, of Pickworth, after describing several failures 

 in attempting to convert " a tract of poor light barren heath 

 by the ordinary mode of breaking up with the plough, states 

 the complete success which attended his endeavours on an- 

 other tract of the same soil by paring and burning." This 

 ground, Mr. Wright says, " produced an excellent quality of 

 turnips, value 21. 10s. per acre." " I afterwards," continues 

 he, " sowed with barley on one ploughing in March ; the crop 

 was estimated at five quarters per acre throughout the piece ; 

 clearing to me as much in one year, as it would have done in 

 pasturage, in its original state, in a century." — Mr. Wright 

 recommends the following course of crops : — First year, 

 pare and burn, and sow with turnips ; second year, barley ; 

 immediately after the barley crop plough once, and harrow 

 in winter tares, to be mown for soiling stock of all kinds on 

 the same ground, which may be begun about the third week 

 of May, and continue till the seed in the pod is nearly ripe, 

 perhaps in July ; what then remains unconsumed may be 

 made into excellent hay. After this, on one ploughing to 

 sow turnips, with or without manuring. After the turnips, 

 barley with grass-seeds, either to remain one, or many 

 years. 



Mr. Legard, of Gratton, observes, that paring and burning, 

 when regard is had to subsequent cropping, is advantageous, 

 because it generally ensures a crop of turnips, the foundation 

 of all good husbandry ; and in light soils, the advantage of 

 eating the turnip crop upon the land is very great, and should 

 therefore be invariably practised. 



Other statements, equally satisfactory, might be brought 

 forward, but they all agree in principle — to break up dry 

 rough sandy pastures by paring and burning ; white crops 

 seldom, at the most one white to two green crops. In the 

 preparation of the land for these crops, the scarifier should 

 be frequently employed instead of the plough, as the frequent 

 turning up of such soils becomes more injurious than bene- 

 ficial. 



