\E.J BURN DRY WEEDS FOJl MANURE. 3()() 



in general lasts longer than common dunging. 

 Keeping lunch cattle, he cannot } it, but 



highly approves it. 



In discourse at Horncastie Ordinary, on burning 

 -tra\v, the practice was imu h r .cd; yet an 



instance was produced that seemed to make in 

 favour of it. Mr. Elmhurst, of Hazlethorpe, burnt 

 twelve acres of cole-seed straw on eight acres of 

 the twelve, and the effect was very great, and seen 

 even for twenty years : he sowed wheat on it, four 

 bushels an acre, and had five quarters : the four 

 acres upon which nothing was burnt much the 

 better land, yet the crops on the burnt part were 

 by that made equal to the rest. But in another 

 similar experiment for turnips, Mr. RanclirF ob- 

 served the result, and the effect, though good, 

 lasted only for one crop. Mr. Kirkham, who was 

 in company, gave it as his opinion, that as cattle 

 would not eat stubble, it might be beneficial to 

 collect and stack that, and before turnip sowing 

 burn it. 



The Rev. Mr. Allington, of Swinop, has cut 

 and carried gorse, and spread it on other land, and 

 burnt it in May for a manuring for turnips ; but 

 has done it twice, and it answered very well ; but 

 of course it is to be noted, that this is done only 

 when it cannot be sold for faggots, which sell at 

 8s. per hundred ; so that the expence would be 4l. 

 an acre, as 1000 are produced per acre, and he 

 burnt the produce of one acre upon another : the 

 effect was great in the turnips ; the barley was 



better 



