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of June with fuccefs. Rape and turneps are 

 the moft general crops, and upon the whole, 

 perhaps, are the moft eligible : the month 

 of June is a leifure-time, and generally a 

 good burning feafon. However, wheat, pro- 

 vided the land were fallowed, and the foil 

 and afhes mixed together by repeated plow- 

 ings and harrowings between the burning 

 feafon and feed-time, does not appear to be 

 an ineligible crop. 



There have been inftances, I am told, in 

 which the afhes (having been fpread in the 

 middle of fummer) were fufFered to be 

 grown over with grafs ; which being turned 

 under in autumn, wheat has been fown on 

 one plowing with good fuccefs. 



General Observations. Sod -burning 

 appears to be one of the fources of real im- 

 provement, which being yet imperfcdlly un- ' 

 derftood, require every effort of the farmer 

 and the philofopher to raife them nearer to 

 perfed:ion. 



At prefent, the pra(ftice Is confined to a 

 few Diilrifts : and in thofe it was applied to 

 particular purpofcs only : while this principal 

 part of the kingdom is a ftranger to its 



ufes. 



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