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" ever good the husbandry may be for fathers, it 

 ** is ruin to fons." 



Mr. Fox, for Monmouthfliire, fays, "that where 

 " the foil is thin, it is injurious — that it may give 

 ,c a crop for a year or two, but after, will give 

 " very little produce but that of hungry weeds." 



Mr. Stone, for Lincolnfhire, confirms the obfer- 

 vations of the latter, by remarking, that where the 

 practice has prevailed, u evident marks remain of 

 " the injury the land has fuftained by it." 



Mr. Lowe, for Nottinghamfhire, obferves, that 

 " lands, in Noi wall lordfhip, have been entirely 

 " fpoiled by it." Mr. Calvert, in the Appendix 

 to the fame county, obferves, " that in many in*. 

 ** dances he has known a barrennefs enfue, which 

 " a long feries of years has not been fufficient to 

 " remedy." 



Mr. Holt, for Lancafhire, fays, that "it has 

 " been too much praclifed, and its deftruclave 

 <( effects are but too apparent upon many farms, 

 M where it has been frequently repeated." 



Mr. Tuke, for the North Riding of Yorkfhire, 

 dates an experiment made between one part of 

 j field of old grafs-land broke up, in a proper 

 manner, with the plough, and another part burn- 



A a baked, 



