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111 passing a remark on the results of tliesc analyses, I may 

 mention that I would liave liked very much to have tested the 

 solitlity of some of the turnips from the other plots also, but 

 refrainetl from doing so on the score of expense. The super- 

 phosphate apparently gives the best results in point of quantity 

 of solids, and the Swedish turnips are much the same ; while 

 farmyard manure, with ])hosphates, potasli, and nitrogen com- 

 bined, gives similar results to the no-manure plot, the nitrate 

 of soda {plot 4, Section II.) always showed a great aljundance of 

 shaws, and evidently the roots stand lowest in point of solids. 

 There is no use of attempting to generalise on these analyses, 

 as, to have afforded fair scope for doing so, there should have 

 been turnips taken out of every one of the plots and examined ; 

 but the results of what has been done will afford a fair criterion 

 of the quality of the turnips in those plots, and also the position 

 yellow turnips hohl in comparison to Swedes as regards the 

 ainount of their solids. 



The readers of this report may rest assured that everything 

 which has been done in connection with these experiments has 

 received every care and attention, having been done solely with 

 the purpose of ascertaining the actual values, as fertilizers, of the 

 various manures used. 



IMPROVEMENTS ON THE ESTATE OF DENBRAE, FIFESHIRE. 

 By David Watson Wemyss, Newton Bank, St Andrews. 



[Premium — The Gold Medal.] 



The Highland and Agricultural Society, always ready to promote 

 and improve the agricultural interest, having offered a premium 

 for an approved report by the proprietor, in Scotland, who shall 

 have executed the most judicious, successful, and extensive im- 

 provement on his estate, I take the opportunity to give a descrip- 

 tion, as accurately and distinctly as I can, of improvements which 

 were executed and carried out under my own personal superin- 

 tendence, on a property belonging to my father and myself jointly. 

 In 1858, my father being unable, through old age, and not residing 

 on the farm, to superintend the work himself, authorised me to 

 make such improvements as I considered necessary and desirable. 

 This property, I may state, is a farm extending to about 300 

 imperial acres, 200 of which are arable, 80 rough pasture, and 20 

 meadow and peat moss. The lands, which are mostly of good 

 qiuility, have rather a northerly exposure, and a high elevation, 



