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their being reflrided from this pradice^ 

 which may be faii to form a principal 

 wheel in the prefent machine or (yftem of 

 the Devoniliire hufbandry. For it is ob- 

 fervable, that the Wheat crops of this 

 Diftrict, after the burning, Hming, and one 

 plowing, which will be mentioned in de- 

 fcribing the culture of that crop, notwith- 

 ftanding the accumulated foulnefs of the 

 foil, already defcribed, are, in general, 

 beautifully clean : and this, though the 

 fucceeding crop of Barley may be foul in 

 the extreme : a circumstance, perhaps, 

 w^hich would be difficult to account for, in 

 any other way, than in the check which the 

 weeds receive, from the burning. The, 

 imperfed: tillage, of one plowing and a 

 chopping, cannot be allowed to have any 

 fliare, in producing this hufbandlike effed:. 

 Let it not, however, be underflood, that 

 any fad:s, which are here brought forward, 

 are intended to fliew the iiecejfity of fod- 

 burning, in this or any other Diilriit. To 

 three fourths of the Illand, the practice may 

 be faid to be unknown ^ yet in many parts 

 of this unburnt fufface of country, if not 



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