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11. Sea Weeds .* 

 Seaweed*. Wherever these are to be had, they are used with uniform 



success. The best and most durable sort is cut From rocks 

 at low water. One loud used fresh is more service than twp* 

 that have been left in a heap to ferment. This is the case 

 with nine substances out of ten. 



12. Pond and River Weeds. 



£ond and river Great advantage has been found from cutting these weeds 



weeds. j ust l3 e f ore t ne | as t ploughing for turnips, and spreading 



them as a manure for that crop. Some value them load 



for load equal to dung, and have imagined the following bar* 



ley superior to that after dunging for turnips. 



13. Hemp and Flax JJ^ater. 

 Hemp and flax In Yorkshire they observe, that the grass grows doubly 

 water- , where flax is grassed. Mr. Billingsley carted flax water 



on his land, and found it superior to animal urine. 

 Where there are convenient pouds on a farm, one at least 

 should be half filled in summer with green weeds for the 

 putrid water, which would soon be the result* 



14. Burnt Vegetables, 

 Burned vege- In some parts of Lincolnshire it is usual, to spread evenly 

 over land,just before sowing turnip seed,from three to 4 tuns 

 of straw per acre, and set fire to it. A similar practice pre- 

 vails in the Pyrenees. It is said to be superior to common 

 dunging. In Cambridgeshire and other places very stout 

 oat stubble, reaped high, is burned as a preparation for 

 wheat, both cleaning and improving the land. 



15. Ploughing in Green Crops. 



Ploughing in This husbandry has been practised for ages, though many 

 gieeu crop?, have found little advantage from it. The benefit certainly 

 depends on the crop being completely buried. The only 

 way of proceeding is, to roll down the crop with a barley 

 roller, and add a skimcoulter to the plough, going in the 

 same direction as the roller, to plough six inches deep. 

 There should be no other successive tillage than scuffling 



* See Journal, p. 79. 



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