4-1 6 JUNE. 



for August. But the young cultivator should now 

 have it in his mind. 



BURN DRY WEEDS FOR MANURE. 



Our young farmer may perhaps want to be re- 

 minded, that spreading any sort of dry vegetable 

 substance on the land, and setting fire to it pre- 

 viously to harrowing in, or drilling turnip-seed, is 

 one of the most powerful manures that can be 

 used. There, are situations where fern from wastes, 

 warrens, &c. may be collected in almost any quan- 

 tity : if he has it in his power to preserve more 

 than he wants for littering, he should save it care- 

 fully for this use. In the fens of Cambridge and 

 Lincoln, it has been long a custom to burn oat and 

 other stubbles (of reaped crops), and the effect re- 

 sulting from it was probably the origin of a practice 

 \vhich I first heard of in the latter county ; that of 

 burning straw for this purpose. 



It subsists on the Wolds. At Lord Yarbo- 

 rough's I first heard of this custom. His Lord- 

 ship's tenant, Mr. Richardson, a very good and 

 intelligent fanner, gave me the account, hav- 

 ing long practised it with success. The quan- 

 tity is about five tons an acre. At Great Lum- 

 ber he straw-burnt a piece in the middle of a field 

 preparing for turnips, and on each side of it ma- 

 nured 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 



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