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6. To carry on the improvement of waste .annSj 

 without encroaching upon the dung necessary for 

 tlie improved part of a farm, as dung ought never 

 to be brought from a good soil to lay on a bad 

 one. Unless dung therefore can be procured from 

 a neighbouring town or village, it will be better to 

 leave the lands in their .natural state, except in 

 cases where the soil, by being pared, burnt, limod, 

 or marled, or covered with chalk, clay, earth, &c. 

 will pay the expense of the improvement. 



7. The last rule is, to lay down land, improved 

 from waste, more especially in high and bleak sit- 

 uations, as soon as possible into grass, and to re- 

 tain it in that state as long as it is tolerably pro- 

 ductive. For though grain and roots may be cul- 

 tivated on waste lands, when properly improved, 

 yet grass pastured, particularly by shev p, is prin- 

 cipally to be depended on for improving all weali 

 soils, in barren districts. In such cases, it is from 

 grass alone that remuneration can be looked for 

 by the improver of waste lands. Even though 

 soils of this description do not produce grass in 

 much abundance, or of good quality, yet when in 

 pasture they produce something, and a stop is put 



^to farther expenditure. 



