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for wheat. This is very good hufbandry, 

 and ought to be more pradtifed on the 

 turnip land. 



As to manuring; paring and burning, 

 and liming, is their chief dependence : the 

 firft is their conftant method of breaking 

 up of old fvvard. They cut the turfs about 

 an inch thick, and difpofe them in heaps, 

 one to a fquare perch, they fet them up to 

 dry, jthe grafs fides turned in, and when 

 quite dry they burn them. Their method 

 is to make two or three large heaps over 

 night and to fire them ; next morning they 

 take the hot embers on iron fhovels, for a 

 foundation for the other heaps, which are 

 fo burnt v/ithout any fuel : If rain comes, 

 the work is flopped till all is dry again. 

 The expence is as follows : 



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In very dry fcafons, they have dried them- 

 felves without fetting up. The time for 

 performing this work is March ; and then 

 turnips are fown in May or the beginning 



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