180 MARCH. 



it is the common husbandry, and often repeated. 

 The sheep-walks and warrens on the Wolds of the 

 East Riding of York, and of Lincoln, have thus 

 been brought most- profitably into culture, though 

 not with the attention in cropping that ought to 

 have been given. In Hampshire and Wilts, the 

 same husbandry prevails. In these counties I have 

 been shewn lands that have been pronounced 

 ruined by this husbandry. The cropping was bad, 

 but still the rent had been doubled by the prac- 

 tice*. In Kent, Mr. Boys shall speak for himself. 

 In a letter to the Editor of the Annals, he says, 

 " If any persons who condemn paring and bum* 

 ing, should come into Kent this summer (17Q5), 

 I can shew them several scores of acpes of wheat, 

 barley, oats, and sainfoin, now growing on land 

 which has several times undergone that operation. 

 The crops of sufficient value to buy the land at 

 more than forty years' purchase, at a fairly esti? 

 rpated rent before the improvement." I humbly 

 presume, that Messrs. Kent, Claridge, dnd Pearce, 

 the great enemies of paring and burning, will not 



pronounce this land ruined by that execrable prac- 

 tice. 



Peat. This article is dispatched in few words. 

 Whatever variety of sentiments there arc on this 

 method, for other soils, here there can be none. 



* In die West Riding, Colonel St. Leger remarks, that if burn- 

 ing wasted the soil, h;s limestone lands, only four inches deep, 

 would have been gone long ago^ as it had been pared and burnt; 

 for age^ Eastern Tour. 



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