296 AGRICULTURE. 



VI. MANAGEMENT OF SOILS, 

 Nothing ftruck me, in this department of 

 management, as differing from the pradiice 

 of Weft Devonfhire. The fame veiling, 

 burning, and one plowing of 4ey grounds 

 for Wheat and Turneps are obfervable : 

 with, however, in fome cafes, an additional 

 fpecies of tillage, which, though partially 

 ufed, throughout this quarter of Devon- 

 fhire, did not fall under my infpedlion, in 

 the more "Weflern Dillri<!l. 



This operation in tillage, has for fome 

 length of time, I underftand, been prac- 

 tifed here, under the ludicrous name of 

 ** tormenting." It is performed with a 

 suBPLOw* of many fhares, which are 

 fixed in a triangular frame, fupported by 

 wheels ; thefe fhares, or fub-hoes, working 

 a few inches beneath the furface. 



The onlyinilance, in which I particularly 

 examined it in ufe^ was on a ley ground 

 which had been veiled Sec. for Turneps, to 

 IpG fown on one plowing : the tormenting 

 being done previoully to the plowing -, for 



which 



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