MARCH. 18Q 



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fore, done cheaper, from 24s. to 30s. an acre. Drain- 

 ing should precede it. 



PARE AND BURN OLD SAINFOIN. 



If a farmer has any old sainfoin layers that are 

 worn out, and which he means to break: up, let 

 him determine to do it in no other method than 

 this. If done by mere ploughing, the chances are 

 much against success, by reason of the red- worm, 

 which is very apt to abound in these layers, to the 

 destruction of any white corn that can be sown. 

 I have known three successive crops destroyed ; 

 but to pare and burn for turnips is the safest hus- 

 bandry. 



General Remarks. In these several cases, there 

 are some points of management which should be 

 equally attended to in all. The heaps should not 

 be made large, twelve or fifteen bushels of ashes 

 are large enough ; twenty may be admitted, but, if 

 much larger, the turfs will be too much burned. 

 This must, however, depend in some measure on 

 the weather, for the worse that is, the larger the 

 heaps must be. It will also depend on the thick- 

 ness of paring. Thin flags will burn in smaller heaps 

 than thick ones. When the ashes are spread, and 

 the sooner that is done the better, the land is to 

 be ploughed thinly, which is the general practice, 

 lest the ashes be too much buried. If tillage be not 

 immediately wanted, the ashes may remain spread, 

 and the crop when sown, will be the better for this 

 exposition to the atmosphere. Upon high moors, 



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