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use some lime on such soils ; though where lime is scarce, he would 

 recommend only a moderate quantity, say 10 bushels to the acre. 

 This he would apply at the time of sowing the seed. Clay would 

 probably do well on these sandy lands. Clay has an alkaline qual- 

 ity, and hence its action would be in some degree similar to ashes ; 

 besides it would act mechanically, by rendering the soil more reten- 

 tive of water, &c. 



Dr. L. alluded again to Mr. Humphrey's corn crop. Mr. H. 

 took off 60 bushels of corn per acre. Now the horn shavings did 

 not actually make half this. What then was taken from the soil 1 

 In the stalk and leaf, he took off that which, in some shape, should 

 be returned to the land. If, when the corn was husked, the stalks 

 had been immediately plowed back into the land, he thought the 

 matters which the corn had taken out of it, would have been nearly 

 restored. If the stalks were eaten by cattle, then both the dung and 

 urine should be put back on the land. 



MANURES— THEIR WASTE, &c. 



BY L. B. LANG WORTHY-. 



The vast importance to the agricultural community, of manures, is 

 a subject almost too palpable to require my poor aid in enforcing its 

 value and claims; yet I propose to treat the subject in a plain man- 

 ner, adapted to the ability and comprehension of the common every 

 day, practical farmer, which station is the bounds of my ambition in 

 that line. 



The present days are prolific with able, learned and valuable 

 treatises on the subject. Chemistry and analysis are taking the place 

 of superstitious dogmas and venerable vulgar errors, and some of the 

 great lights of the age are engaged in developing and elucidating the 

 mysteries of manures, which in fact and verity is the true and long 

 sought Philospher'' s Stone, which by-gone credulity supposed gifted 

 with the magic property of turning all substances it touched into gold. 



The object of this article is to shew the waste and loss of a 

 great part of the valuable properties — the very life blood, heart and 

 soul of manures, as generally made and produced by a great majority 

 of farmers in all parts of the country j even those who are ambitious 

 of being estimated as good practical and economical husbandmen. 



The great and prominent fault, as I consider it, lies in the exposure 

 of the droppings of animals during the feeding season, promiscuously 



