MARCH?] PARE AXB BURX HEATITS, &c. 



every age, to contradict the common sense of man- 

 kind. I could detail cases without end, but really 

 think it would be a loss of time to read them. 

 PARE AND BURN FEN AND HOG. 



In the fens of Cambridgeshire, upon a peat soil, 

 free from large roots and stones, the work of par- 

 ing is always done with a plough, which they make 

 011 purpose for the work, and which executes it in 

 the complctcst manner that can be imagined. It 

 turns off a furrow, from J2 to 1(3, and even 18 

 inches broad, and not more than an inch deep. 

 The use of this admirable tool brings down the 

 whole ex pence of paring, burning, and spreading 

 the ashes, to Qs. or iOs. per acre. But upon those 

 soils, when they have not been in a state of culti- 

 vation, such a plough would not work. 

 PARE AND BURN OLD MEADOWS AND PASTURES. 



These are done with the breast-plough, as it is 

 called, which is pushed on by strength of body, 

 the thighs being armed with wooden guards. It is 

 hard work, and now commonly paid for, including 

 burning and spreading, from 25s. to 4Os. per acre. 

 An inch, or an inch and a half, is the common 

 depth ; but some farmers prefer two inches, for the 

 cake of more ashes. The thinner it is pared, the 

 more certain the burning, should the weather prove 

 unfavourable. 



PARE AND BURN HEATHS AND DOWNS. 



Considerable tracls of this land, on a \\\ .ik, thin, 

 loamy sand, with a calcareous bottom, have, within 

 the last five years, been thus broken upon Newmarket 



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