5. NORFOLK. 3I 



It is ufed by many judicious farmers, even 

 after marl, with fuccefs. Upon hot burning 

 foils it is generally found of the greateft effi- 

 cacy ; and is perhaps the moft efFed:ual cure of 

 " fcalds" which has yet been difcovered : from 

 thefe and other circumftances, lime is here 

 confidered as a cold manure. 



IV. Ashes.— Thefe are not in eftimation as a 

 manure in this country : even thofe of the hearth 

 are in a degree negledted. 



The meadows and fens abound with peat- 

 bogs, which in fome places would be confidered 

 as ineftimable fources of manure* The peat of 

 the meadows would no doubt afford an ample 

 fupply of afhes ; but thofe of the fens, being 

 wholly compofed of the roots, &c. of aquatics, 

 burn down to an inconliderable quantity of afhes, 

 of a white colour, and of a volatile nature, 

 like thole of paper. Kven the fmall quantity 

 they afford is not confidered, by men who fland 

 high in their profefTion, as a valuable manure. 



Sod-burning is not, I believe, pradifed in any 

 degree : I never, at leafl, met with an inflance 

 of it ; nor, indeed, with any inflance in which 

 aflies were intentionally produced folely as a ma-* 

 nure; exeept one, in which ant-hill* were 

 burnt for this purpofe (fee Min^ 6.). 



DUNC. 



