244 On the Mamiring of Grass Lai:d. 



£. ?. d. £. e. d. 



12 tons of manure, at 9s. 8fZ, . . 5 16 2Hon3 of hay, at 4?. 10 

 Carting and spreading, at Is. 3c?. 15 H ton aftermath- 

 Guano, 2 cwt., at IGs 1 12 hay, at 3Z 4 10 a 



Eoad scrapings ? . , 



Eent and taxes (say) 



£14 10 



Profit .. ..£470 

 No credit is taken for the autumn and spring feed of sheep. 



This is confessedly an extraordinary case, and quite impossible 

 in ordinary circumstances. No farmer could spare such a quan- 

 tity of dung, however it might pay. Let us take an ordinary case. 

 A gentleman of my acquaintance occupies a farm belonging to 

 Lord Westmorland, which is as poor as any land can be which 

 is worth culture. It is tithe-free, and four miles from a large 

 town, and lets at 2bs. per acre. There are about seventy acres 

 of grass, which had been treated upon the Bedfordshire principle 

 for nearly half a century by a tenant who was compelled to 

 emigrate. This grass-land produced less than half a ton per acre 

 the first year of the present tenant's occupation, and the after- 

 grass corresponded accurately to the hay-crop. It has now been 

 manured annually with stable dung, carted from the town and 

 placed under a shed till it became too wet with the excreta of 

 pigs,* which lived upon it, to give them a comfortable bed. In 

 this state it was carted out, and six loads per year were applied 

 per acre. The dung was but little reduced when put on ; and 

 had it not been systematically applied early, it would have in- 

 commoded the mowers. Indeed, in some instances, the men 

 have complained of it. This grass-land now gives 1^ ton per 

 acre of hay all round, and more after-grass than it gave of hay the 

 first year. Does this pay ? 



We will assume that the first year's crop was the normal one, 

 and that it paid rent, taxes, haymaking, and other expenses, 

 though this is not the fact. 



Then 1 ton of hay due to manure = 4?., and extra after-a;rass 5s. per r.cre. 

 4:1. 5s. X 70 = 2911. 10s. 



6 tons of manure, at 5s £1 10 



Cartage, at 3s 18 



Filling and spreading, at Is. 3r?. .. 7 G 



£2 15 6 



* The reader will bear iu mind that pigs' urine resembles that of nran, in con- 

 taining phosphates. 



