An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 946 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Va III. biiriied in a rude sort
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 946 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Va III. biiriied in a rude sort of kiln, formed by digging a pit in the sand, or by enclosing a portion of the surface with loose stones. On tlie bottom of this kiln a peat fire is kindled, and the weed is gradually added, till the fire extends over the whole floor; the weed is then spread lightly on the top, and added in successive portions. As it burns it leaves ashes, which accumulating towards evening, become semifused, and are then well stirred. Another day's burning increases the mass; and this is continued till the kiln is nearly filled. On some occasions the kiln consists of a cavity in tlie ground, over which bars of iron are placed ; and on this the ware is burned, the ashes falling into the cavity, where they are well worked by the proper instruments. G190. Ke/p is generally lUvided into two kinds ; the cut-weed kelp, and the drift-weed kelp ; the former made from the weed which has been recently cut from the rocks, the latter from that which has been drifted ashore. The latter is supposed to yield a kelp of inferior quality. Some specimens of kelp, how- ever, made from sea-weed which had been drifted ashore, tend to prove that this is not always the case. Weed which has been exposed to rain during the process of drying, affords a kelp of inferior quality. It is of the utmost importance to the manufacturer of kelp, to keej) his weed as much as possible free from rain. For this purpose many emp
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