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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 mad equal to the rest. But in another 

 similar experiment for turnips, Mr. RanclifF 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 1OOO 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 for it ; but he has not attended to it in the 

 seeds, because hard stocked with sheep. He has 

 burnt on the land for turnips, the long straw dung 

 from the surface of the farm-yard, and he had 

 better turnips there than where the dung was laid. 

 This has been the case in two experiments he has 

 made. 



A general practice through the mountains of Gas- 

 cony, and almost to Bayonne, is that of manuring for 



raves, 



