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Consisting of f of 1 per cent of the salts of lime, and If per cent of 

 potash and soda. 



Salts of lime being — 



Phosphate of lime, * » * 8 i of 1 per cent. 



Sulphate do., ...*.... 1-| do. 



9 J or I as above. 



Besides the addition of organic or vegetable food, these valuable 

 salts were added to the land, lime also — this, with the phosphates and 

 sulphates, forming, in all probability, the chief beneficial effect of the 

 application. 



This muck has mineral matter in it indispensable to vegetable 

 growth* I have ascertained by analysis that there is 37 per cent. 



AN ESTIMATE 



Of the Consumption of Cattle in JVeu?- Ycrk city. 



The following is an estimate of the beef, mutton, pork and veal 

 killed in New-York city, &c. per annum, made by Mr. Wakeman, the 

 corresponding secretary, from information obtained from several of the 

 leading butchers, and by him submitted to the Institute* 



Beeves. 



