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four inches thick ; that they must 

 be set up to dry, leaning against 

 each other ; that when the season 

 is not very wet, they will be dry 

 enough to burn in about three 

 weeks ; that when dry, they must 

 be piled up in the form of ovens, 

 the mouths to the most windward 

 side ; that a hole should be left in 

 the top for the smoke to go out ; 

 that as soon as they are piled, they 

 must be set on fire with some straw 

 or heath ; that if they burn too fast, 

 earth must be thrown on to deaden 

 the flames ; and that they will con- 

 tinue burning some days. When 

 the burning is ended, he advises, 

 that the ashes be piled up in round 

 heaps ; that when it is time to sow 

 winter grain, the ashes should be 

 spread, and the corn sown on them, 

 and then the ground ploughed with 

 a shoal furrow, and harrowed." 



He says, "half the usual quan- 

 tity of seed will be sufficient; and 

 that it ought to be sowed two weeks 

 later than other ground." The 

 reason is, because the grain will 

 grow rapidly, and be uncommonly 

 large. 



I conceive this must be a good 

 method of culture for our cold 

 lands, inclining to moss, which can 

 no other way be made to produce 

 well the first year after breaking 

 up. But this method will not readi- 

 ly be adopted in a country where 

 labour is dear. The work, howev- 

 er, might be greatly diminished, by 

 paring the surface with a very 

 sharp ironed plough ; though in 

 order to do this, the ground must 

 have an extremely even surface, 

 and be free from stones. I have 

 said so much of this culture, in 



hopes of exciting some, who are 

 curious, to make trial of it. See 

 Paring and Burning. 



BURNET, Pimpinella, a pe- 

 rennial plant, which was brought 

 into notice and highly praised by 

 a Mr. Roque, of England, about 

 40 years since, as a productive 

 and valuable article of fodder. It 

 was also pretty strongly recom- 

 mended in the first and second edi- 

 tions of this work, but it has not 

 sustained its reputation, and it is 

 believed it is no where extensively 

 cultivated as a grass. 



BURNT CLAY. See Burning 

 the Soil. 



BUSHES, shrubs. These are 

 apt to spring up and increase in 

 pasture lands, which have never 

 been tilled, if timely care be not 

 taken to destroy them. Eradica- 

 ting them requires so much labour, 

 that farmers are most commonly 

 content with cutting them once in 

 a (ew years. But the more cut- 

 tings they survive, the longer lived 

 they are apt to be ; and the harder 

 to kill, as the roots continually gain 

 strength. 



Keeping cattle short in pastures 

 will cause them to browse the 

 more ; and this will have a ten- 

 dency to subdue many kinds of 

 bushes. Those which grow on 

 high ground are oftener subdued 

 this way than those which grow in 

 swampy low lands, the latter being 

 less palatable to the cattle. 



It is undoubtedly true, that cut- 

 ting bushes in the summer will do 

 more towards destroying them,than 

 doing it in any other season 

 particularly in August ; Other 

 circumstances being equal,the wet- 



