2 1 o Oj the Management and 



the Red-colour'd is efteem*d the beft, and th« 

 White the worft. Thefe may be call'd 

 N^ 15. 



SECTION XVIL 



Of the Improvement of arable hand by Burn- 

 bating. 



THIS Method of Improvement is call'd 

 Devon^hiring^ as being in the County of 

 Devon firft invented and mod practis'd : It 

 is not proper for all Sorts of Lands, but that 

 only which is barren, fowr, or heathy, whe- 

 ther it be hot or cold, dry or moift : It is 

 done after the following Manner ^ You are 

 firft to get a Breaft- Plough 5 with this you are 

 to pare off the Turf, turning it over as it is 

 cut, unlefs it be in a very hot Seafon 5 fet it 

 a little hollow, for its more eafy drying 5 and 

 when it is thorough dry let the Turf, be laid 

 in fmall Heaps, about two Wheel-barrow 

 Load together 5 and then if the Turf be full 

 of fibrous Roots/ or has a good Head upon it, 

 it will burn without any additional Fuel ^ but 

 if not, the Heaps are to be rais'd on fmall 

 Bundles of Fern, Gq(s, &c. that it may fet 

 the whole on Fire. When the Heaps arc re- 

 duced to Aflies, let them lie 'til they arc a 



littJe 



