3X4 SOILS AND SOIL-PROCESSES. 20. 



Viewed in this light, sod-burning, what- 

 ever effect it may have on light porous foils, 

 is, in all human probability, a cardinal im- 

 provement of foils of a CLOSE clayey 

 NATURE : and it appears to me a matter in- 

 cumbent on every pofleflbr of fuch foils to 

 try, on a fmall fcale at lead, the effedt of a 

 FREQUENT REPETITION of this Operation. ' 



2. FuRZE-GROUNDS. It is the opinion of 

 one who has paid clofe attention to the fub- 

 jeft, that old furze -grounds^ off which fuel 

 having been repeatedly carried, areof courfe 

 much depauperated, may in general be im- 

 proved in the following manner. 



Grub ; fow grafs-feeds, on the grubbed 

 furface, without plowing •, ^nd let the land 

 remain in this ftate until it has acquired a de- 

 gree of iirmnefs, the fmaller roots left in it 

 are decayed, and the furface has got a co- 

 vering. Then fod-bum, lime, &c, and 

 break up the foil for a courfe of arable crops : 

 clofing with cultivated grafs. When the 

 turzes begin again to grow troublefome, re- 

 peat the fod-burning. 



3. Woodlands. The fame inventive huf- 

 bandman has Ibuck out a fimple and certain 



method 



