1^4 On Mofs as a Manure, May 



* TO THE CONDUCTOR OF THE FARMEr's MAGAZINE. 



On Mofs as a Manure, 



Sir, 



1 have perufed your valuable publication with much fatisfac- 

 tion, and am firmly perfuaded its circubtion will diffufe much 

 ufeful knowledge throDgliout the Agricultural wojld. You 

 liave in Ibme late numbers given us a new difcovery, relative to 

 tlie value of mofs for compost. 1 fay a jiew difcovery, becaufe I 

 live in a remote corner of the Ifland where we have many thou- 

 fand acres of mofs, unapplied to any other purpofe than that 

 of feul. Adjacent to thefe moffes, are as many thoufand acres of 

 good light foil, very much adapted to turnip hufbandry. I pof- 

 fefs nearly 3C0 acres of this' kind of foil, and about 4® acres of 

 Mofs, wherein there is much variety, viz. the foft fpungy mofs of 

 a dirty yellow colour, provinciully flow-mofs j the brittle brown 

 mofs full of rotten chips; and the black compact mofs of a denfe 

 quality. Now, having equal accefs to all thefe, I requeft fome 

 of your correfpondents, who have actually made a comparative 

 trial, to fay, which of thefe kinds of mofs are bell for convert- 

 ing Into manure by an admixture of Farm-yard dung, Sec. upon 

 Lord Meadowbanks fyflem. — Attention to the above limple quef- 

 tion, will gratify many of your readers, as well as yours, &c. 



R. C. , 

 December 13. 1802. 



FOR. THE farmer's MAGAZINE. 



^jierics on Drill Hujbandry, \3c. 



What are the advantages, and difadvantages, of the fyflem of 

 drill hufbandry for all crops as pradifed in China univerfally, 

 and now introduced pretty generally into feveral parts of Eng-& 

 land? 



What is the befl form of a farmer's cart? 



What are the bell varieties of feeds, as fuited for particular 

 foils ? 



A. s. 



