5 6 MINUTES OCT. 



20. til it has been thoroughly flaked in the foil ; 



LIME. and, f rom the laft mentioned incident, it feems 



as if the rains of fummer were neceffary to pro- 

 mote its operation. 



3' 



FURZE- NOVEMBER 6. In a furze-ground, in which 



a large plot was cut down lad winter, there is 

 now a crqp of young fhoots from two to two 

 and a half feet high : if thefc were now mown 

 (which if , the ftubs be cut tolerably level they 

 might be with great cafe,) there would be 

 I. apprehend two load of tender fucculent herb- 

 age an acre. 



If furze-tops be that hearty and wholefome 

 food they are represented to be, how eaiily and 

 with what advantage they might .be in this 

 manner collecled : Cut the flubs low and level; 

 mow; and bruife the herbage with a broad 

 wooden wheel in the cyder-mill manner. 



Lands which will afford no other crop will 

 produce furze j and although poor lands would 

 not throw up fnoots like thofe alluded to, 

 the crop might, no doubt, be mown, and 

 the fhoots, if very fhort, be collected in a re- 

 ceptacle at the heel of the lithe. 



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