WEST DEVONSHIRE. 141, 



Working a dunged fallow, before 

 the crop be fown : a practice I have ever 

 found highly eligible. 



SoDBURNiNG. The iTioft noticeable 

 particular of Management, in the Soil 

 Procefs of this D ifl:ri(ft, is that of " B u R n i s o 

 Beat," as it is provincially termed ; an* 

 fwering to the paring and burning, or more 

 technically, fodburning —of other Diftri6ls. 



This operation in Agriculture has been 

 pradifed, in this Weftern part of the Ifland, 

 from time beyond which memory nor 

 tradition reaches. It has probably been 

 imported from the oppoiite fliore of the 

 Continent. 



In an old tracfl which I faw, fome years 

 ago, in the Britifh Mufeum, this operation 

 is termed devonshiring, and it is to 

 this day called Denshiring, in diiferent 

 Diftrifts. 



There are, at prefent, three diftin(fl 

 methods of feparating the fward or fod, 

 provincially the ** fpine" — from the foil. 

 The one is performed with a " beating 

 axe" — namely a large adze — fome five or 



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