. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. will be effectually burnt. By-commencing with a centre grating in the form of a cross {fig. 517.),the workman may build from four ends in the place of two; thiscontrivance will afford a facility in the work, and have a draft ofwind at two entrances. 3226. The advantage of this mode of burning clay is the saving ofcartage, as the clay raa» be always
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. will be effectually burnt. By-commencing with a centre grating in the form of a cross {fig. 517.),the workman may build from four ends in the place of two; thiscontrivance will afford a facility in the work, and have a draft ofwind at two entrances. 3226. The advantage of this mode of burning clay is the saving ofcartage, as the clay raa» be always burned where it is dug.•52-->7 Burning clan and surface soil by lime, wilAoutfuel, has been practised by Curwen {Farm. xVi p H 12 inYhe fo^wmg manner : - Mounds of seven yards in length, and three and a half n,hroid h are kindle w th seven two Winchester bushels of lime. First, a layer of dry sods or parings,%i?S^k«i nuxing sods with if, then a covering of eight inches of sods, onwhtehAeothefhatfoffteh^is^read, and covered a foot thick; the height of the mound beingIn twenty four hours it will take fire. The lime should be immediately from the ... [?„„. ;. ,i ra«™ „ When the lire is fairly. about a vard It is better to suffer it to ignite itself, than to effect it by the operation rf*^J^Jtete™2kindled fre-h sods must be applied Mr. Curwen recommends obtaining a sufficient body of ashes beforea V ctav is puti on The mounts The fire naturally rises to the top. It takes less time, and does morework to draw down the ashes from the top, and not to suffer it to rise above six feet I he former practiceofburningnikllns was more exPenshe, did much less work, and, in many instances, calcined the ashes, Sfe^ ™ luZn* day. A writer in The Farmers Journal (Dec. 1821), asserts that « thegreat!r part of many be*; of cofd clay contain in them a substance, or ingredient, which is in, .tself, to agreat degree, combustible, as known to every br
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