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carriage and expences included under td. 

 a biiihel which amounts to 12/. \os. per 

 acre : it is evident enough, that fuch a plan 

 would never do. 



But the grand point of paring and burn- 

 ing is the bringing wails foils into culture, 

 one may almoft fay, in a fingle day : it is 

 pared and burnt, once ploughed and fown 

 immediately with turnips ; a crop which 

 never fails after that management : thus is 

 the v/ork done at once. But fubflitute the 

 plough alone -wliat a tedious, compli- 

 cated, expeniive procefs ^nfues, to bring 

 about a much inferior profit. 



I have heard this hufbandry ironically 

 called mofc generous, for you burn your 

 0'^v\fiil to dijlribute it to all your neighbours* 

 But thofe who talk thus know not what 

 the operation isi the aflies are not like 

 thofe of wood, that blow about like' 

 duft, much of tiiem confifts in half burnt 

 roots and vegetables — ^or at leaft of a grofs 

 afh, but little moved by the wind : but 

 fuppcfing it ever fo light, who but the 

 greateil fiovens leave them to be blown 

 away ? On the contrary, tl>ey are imme- 

 diately fpread and ploughed in hot. We 

 are not to condemn manuring with wood 

 allies, foot, or lime, and yet the wind af- 

 I 3 feels 



