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The heaps well on fire, frefli fods are laid 

 on from time to time, until the whole are 

 expended ; not more than half of them per- 

 haps being ufed in forming the original 

 heaps. 



In *' beating up" the heaps, the frefli fods 

 are laid on the fide on which the fire is the 

 ftrongeft ; the addition being feldom made 

 until the fire begins to make its appearance 

 on the outer-fide of the heap. 



When all the frelli fods are expended, the 

 unburnt pieces which Aide down the fides 

 of the heaps and lie round their ikirts are 

 laid upon the top, and the whole reduced to 

 afhes. 



The burning is principally done by wo- 

 men, by the day : fometimes the paring and 

 burning are let together by the acre. The 

 fr ice of burning five to fix fliillings an acre. 



3. Afhes. The moft general method, and 

 that which fcems to be in the beft efteem, is 

 to fpread the afiies as foon as they are cool, 

 or perhaps while yet warm, and to plow the 

 land immediately for the crop, with 2.jhaUow 

 funo'uj^ to prevent the afhes from being bu- 

 ried too deep in the foil. 



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