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CHAP. IV. 







EARTH-BURNING, 1818. 



194. IN paragraphs 99, 100, and 101, I spoke 

 of a mode of procuring manure by the burning 

 of earth, and I proposed to try it this present 

 year. This I have now done, and I proceed to 

 give an account of the result. 



195. I have tried the efficacy of this manure 

 on Cabbages, Swedish Turnips, Indian Corn, 

 and Buckwheat. In the three former cases the 

 Ashes were put into the furrow and the earth 

 was turned over them, in the same way that I 

 have described, in Paragraph 177, with regard 

 to the manure for Savoys. I put at the rate of 

 about twenty tons weight to an acre. In the 

 case of the Buckwheat, the Ashes were spread 

 out of the waggon upon a little strip of land on 

 the out-side of the piece. They were thickly 

 spread ; and it might be, that the proportion ex 

 ceeded even thirty tons to the acre. But, upon 

 the part where the ashes were spread, the Buck 

 wheat was three or four times as good as upon the 

 land adjoining. The land was very poor. It 

 bore Buckwheat last year, without any manure. 



