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being four inches wide, three inches deep, one foot in 
length, and one inch in thickness; in hard ground 
they are placed on the bottom of the drain ; in soft, on 
tile pieces; and where one is thought insufficient, two 
together are used, formirfg a pipe of four inches wide 
by six deep, or laid beside each other, forming two 
drains ; this method has here answered extremely 
well, by rendering sound and wholesome a farm form¬ 
erly cold and springy, and which, from being sterile 
and unproductive, now yields good crops of grain, or 
excellent pasture for sheep and cattle ; the tiles cost 
50s. per thousand at the kiln, which, when laid single, 
amount to 15d. per rod of eight yards, or, if laid dou¬ 
ble, to 2s. 6d. the labour lOd. for every such rod, and 
beer, which makes it equal to Is. the depth of the work 
three to four feet; they are secured by turf and heath, 
&c. laid upon the tiles before the drain is filled up. 
Mr. Miller often bores in the bottom of his drains: land 
should be drained before liming, and, indeed, before 
any other improvement. 
SECT. II.— PARING AND BURNING. 
This, Mr. Oldacre says, has not been much practised 
here, as there are but few old lands to break up, and 
there are but few roots in new turf to make ashes. If a 
farmer has a piece of strong turf, he generally plants it 
with beans, or sows flax at one ploughing with a turf 
plough, by which, the turf being buried under a clean 
furrow of mould, by the next year is sufficiently melio* 
•rated; and this practice is preferred to paring and burning. 
But Mr. Carpenter relates, that paring and burning 
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