J 4 Mr. ^sTiTies Anderson's Observations, ^c. 



women and children, with hand-rakes, will go over a great many ridges, collecting 

 the clods and building them up in smal heaps, in which position there is no doubt 

 of their being sufficiently dry before the season for sowing bear or barley comes on, 

 which we hold to be from the 20th April to the 30th May ; nor is there any danger 

 of rendering the soil too dry by such a burning operation. It is impossible, indeed, 

 to bring moss to produce a fair crop without it, if circumstanced, as you are, without 

 the aid of dung, lime, or any other kind of manure. 



