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If you have any fort of foil in nature fopoof 

 as to convince you it will not bring a crop 

 without artificial afTiftance, and you can find 

 turf or fward upon it fufficient to pare and 

 burn, and by that operation improve the land 

 fo much as to enable it to bear a crop, which 

 otherwife it could not have done ; who can 

 find fault with fuch proceeding ? I could men- 

 tion innumerable inftances where paring and 

 burning has fucceeded mod wonderfully. 

 Sometimes the tenant, through poverty, is not 

 able to bear the expence : but moftly the aver- 

 fion which gentlem.en or their agents have fo 

 unaccountably contra6ted againft this pra(5lice, 

 prevents the more general ufe of it. It is ne- 

 ceflfary to fay, that you mud take care that the 

 fods burn not too rapidly : for, if they fmother 

 gently, the aihes will retain much of the oil 

 which by an intenfe fire would evaporate. Ic 

 is advifeable to divide the fods into a number 

 of hillocks J as, wherever they are burnt, you 

 may be certain of a good crop from the earth's 

 receiving the oil which oozes out during the o- 

 peration, and which the land will retain for two 

 or three crops. 



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