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fail would be enriched, and its bad qualities^ 

 confiderably diminifhed. 



Sand is the only foil that will not burn -, fand 

 therefore cannot receive any improvennent from 

 burn-baking, except by burning clay and car- 

 rying it to a fandy field. Rut I am of opinion 

 that clay in. its raw ftate would be of more lad- 

 ing benefit to fuch foil. 



Clay where rufhes grow may be worked to 

 very great advantage by burn-baking. Where 

 fwath or ant-hills are not to be had, clay taken 

 from the bottom of ditches or grips may be 



Moorland would raife a very large propor- 

 tion of aihes, which at an eafy expence might 

 be carried to clay-land, and ufed as manure in 

 drill-crops. But where clay can be procured, it 

 would be of great utility to burn it, and lay it 

 on moor-land as manure for drill-crops; as, 

 when fuch a mode of culture is adopted, abun- 

 dant crops are raifed with fo much lefs of every 

 fort of drefTing. 



To fave the expence of bread-ploughing, or 

 paring by men, the clay, &c. for burning may 

 be ploughed up with the common plough, as 



there 



