■2jS soils and soil Px^OCESSES. ao. 



Sometimes the foil is only rice balked, not 

 plowed clean. 



Perhaps the moft effedtual method of mix- 

 ing the aflies with the foil, the great thing to 

 be defired, would be iirll to r'.ce-balk acrofs 

 the ridges, and then to gather them up with 

 a clean plowing. 



This fummer has afforded me an opportu- 

 nity of obferving a fingular innovation in 

 the art of fod-burning. 



Infteadof the ibds being dried and burnt, 

 and the afhes fpread on the pared furf ace, and 

 pkzvcd in under furrow, the land, in this in- 

 iuince, was plowed immediately as the paring 

 was fiiiifhed, the fods dried and burnt, and 

 the afhes fpread upon the plowed furf ace , to 

 be harrowed in with the feed as a topdrejfing. 



In executing this method, the ridges of 

 the lands v/ere cleared, five or fix feet wide, 

 by throwing back the fods into the fides of 

 the lands ; and, as the ground was plowed, 

 the fods were returned to nearly their former 

 fituation,^^ being thrown on rough over the 

 plowed gi;6.UHd. One plow took about three 

 women, at.' t.cnpence a day, to follow it. The 

 extra e^pence half-a-cro\vn to three fhillings 



an acre. 



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