2QO PARE AND BURN. [MAY. 



heads of sage. Add the ingredients, and boil the 

 water a quarter of an hour. To the liquor, when 

 cokl, put one veil. The rennet may be used the 

 next day." Marshall, Gloucester. 

 PARE AND BURN. 



Paring and burning the turf is, in some places, 

 begun so soon as March ; it holds all through 

 May. In the burning, many hands should be set 

 at work at once, that a dry time may be caught 

 for it, in case the season in general proves wet. 

 The ashes should be spread before the plough, and 

 turned in immediately : one peculiar circumstance 

 attending the breaking up of grass-lands, whether 

 old turf or sainfoin lays, in this manner, is the 

 bringing them in order for turnips with only one 

 ploughing ; and it is a general and very just obser- 

 vation, both in the north and west of England, 

 where this husbandry is most common, that tur- 

 nips scarcely ever are known to fail on burnt lands : 

 the fly, on such, is nearly unknown. Now, any far- 

 mer must be sensible of the vast importance of thus 

 bringing turf-land, by only one ploughing, to a 

 turnip crop : much tillage is thus saved, as well as 

 a great ex pence ; and the turnips are generally a 

 crop, that repays the expences of the operation 

 with profit. In a word, this husbandry deserves 

 the warmest praise. 



But of late yeaio, an opinion against it has pre- 

 vailed much in scr?c counties. Several of the no- 

 bility and gentry, of very large estates, have inter- 

 dicted the practice, not allowing their tenants to 



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