dryest summer I conceive its diminution does not exceed iLicc o\ 

 four feet) cannot fail of rendering the surface cold and unproduc- 

 tive. Agreeablv to this theory the surface must rise in the winter, 

 and subside in the summer months ; and this is verified by fact, for 

 certain fixed bodies are seen over the moor, at certain seasons, 

 which cannot be ' :s >ied at others. 



If these premises be admitted, it follows, that the only radical 

 cure must be compleat draining, and after that burning the matted 

 surface ; the former 1 think may be effected in the manner before 

 stared, and the latter in the following way, without any great 

 difficulty or expence. 



In the months of March or April when the land is dry, let it be 

 plouc'ied as deep as six strong horses can plough it ; this will cost, 

 about twenty shillings per acre. In this state let it remain till the 

 se I is dry enough to burn, then provide yourself with some keen cut- 

 ting knives ofabout a foot in breadth, the cutting part of which should 

 be of a semicircular form ; with these let the plit be cut into parts 

 of about two feet and a half in length, then let your burners reduce 

 them to ashes as fast as possible, which being spread equally on the 

 surface and ploughed in, sow the ground about the middle of May 

 with one bushel and a half of buck wheat per acre, two bushels of 

 ray grass, and five pounds of white Dutch clover. The cost of all this 

 will be nearly as follows per acre. 



First ploughing ............ 100 



Cutting the plit and burning ....... o 12 o 



Spreading the ashes 030 



Second ploughing 050 



Harrowing 010 



i| Bushel buck wheat , 060 



2 Bushels of ray grass 050 



5 lb. of Dutch clover 040 



Tythe .,«•».«. 030 



£• 2 *9 ° 



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