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The price of paring, burning and 

 fpreading the aflies in the moor countries, 

 varies from 14 j. to jys. 6d, They per- 

 form it very well, and effe<5lually for that 

 fum, fo as to have the plough follow 

 them without interruption. This price 

 is cheap ; but yet from dexterity and cuf- 

 tom they make fuch good earnings at it, 

 that many men apply for the work, the 

 moment it is known that any is to be 

 done ; and I found, from various en- 

 quiries, that there would not be any dif- 

 ficulty in having the largeft quantity of 

 land pared and burnt through a want of 

 hands ; however, I fhall, to obviate acci- 

 dents and obje6lions, calculate at one 

 pound per acre. A price, that would at 

 once draw all the parers in the coun- 

 try. 



The benefit of this praftice as a ma- 

 nure is every day clearly {ten by the 

 vaft crops which fucceed it for fome years. 

 I have viewed many fields taken from 

 the very blackeil moors, that were crop- 

 ped, firfl with turnips, and then with 

 5, 6 or 7 crops running of maflin oats, 

 or barley-big, and laid to grafs with the 

 laft, reckoned by the farmers then in 

 I 4 good 



