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throughout the whole of it, the prefent 

 ^atc of hufbandry is preferable to that of 

 ]3evonfhire; and, whenever clean fal- 

 lows, and faitable fallow crops, fliall 

 be introduced, here, and judiciouily mixed 

 with the grain crops, agreeably to the 

 pradiice of modern hufbandry, burning 

 beat will certainly be no longer required. 



In fadt, the upland foils of this country 

 are not adapted to the practice. The foil 

 under ordinarily good management, is, in 

 its nature, productive of clean fweet her- 

 bage ; and, under a proper courfe of huf- 

 bandry, never would become coarfe and 

 rough ikinned, fo as to require this ope- 

 ration ; which is, as has heretofore been 

 remarked, peculiarly adapted to old coarfe 

 tough fward, whether of dry land or wet, 

 light land or fliff j and, in much probabi- 

 lity, to cold retentive foils, as often as a 

 fuitable rotation of crops will permit *, 



That burning the graffy fward of land 

 ad:s as a stimulus to the foil is every- 

 where obfervable : in this Diftrid, I faw a 

 L 3 ftriking 



* See York. EcoN. Voll. Page 313. 



