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BURN DRY WEEDS FOR MANURE. 



a very good and intelligent farmer, gave me th< 

 account, having long practised it with success. 

 The quantity is about five tons an acre. At Great 

 Lumber he straw-burn*; a piece in the middle of a 

 field preparing for turnips, af*d on each side of it 

 manured with ten loads an acre of yard-dung, and 

 the burnt part was visibly superior in the crop. In 

 another piece the same comparative trial was made 

 in 179^7 for turnips, which crop was much the 

 best on the burnt part; and in 17Q7, the barley 

 equally superior. On another farm he had at 

 Wold Newton he did it for turnips, then barley 

 and laid with sainfoin ; and the burnt straw wj 

 better in all those crops than yard-dung. Burn- 

 ing gorse in this manner returns great crops, bi 

 the cxpence is too high. He is clearly of opinion, 

 that it is the warmth from the fire that has tl 

 effect, and not the ashes ; for the quantity is no- 

 thing, and would blow away at one blast. It ii 

 proper to c that they do not value stra^ 



used in feeding cattle, at more than 4s. or 5s. p< 

 ton. 



Mr. MullLs of Lumber, is of the same opinioi 

 and thinks four ton enough : he never knew that 

 quantity fail for tun 



This straw-burning husbandry I found again at 

 Belesby. Mr. Llov I should observe, is 



an excellent , thinks that it takes six tons 



per acre, which will 1;. cr in its eifecl, and 



beat the dung which that straw would make ; and 



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