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there need be no fear of burning too much of 

 the foil. The expence indeed of burning a very 

 large quantity is greater : but the farnner would 

 be amply reimburfed by the abundance of the 

 produce. I know a gentleman who ploughed 

 a field as deep as the plough ufually goes for a 

 crop, and burned the whole; and a moil luxu- 

 riant crop of barley grew upon it — fo much fo 

 that on the fites of the fires there was ten times 

 too much. 



The fort of plough proper for making land 

 ready for burn-baking is the RauclifFe plough, 

 ufed in the low and marfhy parts of Yorkfhire 

 to pare land, inftead of bread-paring by men, 

 it is ufual for men to do this with this fort of 

 plough, and find cueir own horfes, at 4J, 6d, 

 per acre; but where ant-hills abound, it would 

 require a ftronger team, and therefore cofl more 

 money. Oxen would do this work very well 5 

 for, by going flow, they give the man an op- 

 portunity to plough with greater deliberation. 

 The ploughs upon rufliy, haffocky land have 

 wheel-coulters, which fteady it much, and in a 

 great meafure prevent its going different depths: 

 but the wheel-coulter cannot be applied where 

 large ant-hills or (tones are in the land. 



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