188 MARCH. 



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

 tion, such a plough would not work. 



PARE AND BURN OLD MEADOWS AND PASTURES. 

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

 call6d, 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 50s. per acre. 

 An inch is the common depth ; but some farmers 

 prefer two inches, for the sake 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 tracts of this land, on a weak, thin, 

 loamy sand, with a calcareous bottom, have, within 

 the last five years, been thus broken up upon New- 

 market-heath, which was done at the expence of 

 36s. to 45s. per acre, and immense crops the conse- 

 quence, but in a very bad course, which will by 

 and bye raise enemies there to this husbandry, 

 though most unjustly. 



PARE AND BURN MOORS, &c. 

 The moors and mountains of the north of Eng- 

 land, Wales, Devonshire, &c. when broken up for 

 cultivation, are often, and ought always to be re- 

 duced by this husbandry. It has long been com- 

 mon management in those countries, and is, there- 

 fore, 



