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without, however, entirely condemning the con- duct of those landlords who interdict it to their tenants; because being a great prov ocative to fer- tility, farmers of a certain description make use of it to run the land entirely out of heart. Paring and burning are by the enemies of the practice supposed to rehnainisll the staple of the soil; anidea purely chimerical. Mr. Young’s arguments of this head, with the facts he has adduced, appear to be entirely conclusive. It is admitted, that some land in this country, as well as in Ireland, has been totally exhausted and’ ruined by the pr actice whilst large tracts of a staple equally thin, have

-been immemorially burned, not only without per-

ceptible diminution of their staple», but to their ob- vious great improvement. ie eiaucaae and ruin of the lands after burning, have, in all pro- bability, resulted from the Sai treatment of plying them with successive corn-crops, without rest or manure; a method, in truth, fully adequate to the ae ticeon of the richest lands, without the aid of paring and burning: but in order to prove fairly the evil consequence of the practice, it be- hoves the enemies of it, to produce examples of lands injured thereby, which have at the same time been cultivated in a fair and husband-like. manner; namely, by having onlya single corn-crop taken at first, to be f ealliesed by hoeing crops and seeds, a due proportion of manure being allowed to the succeeding corn-crops. Turnips or rape harrowed in on one shallow earth, are usually the first crops after the operation; and if the latter, they are used as spring-feed, oats and seeds follow-

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