Norfolk Farming, 311 



Incomplete as the foregoing experiments are, they serve to show 

 that an unlimited quantity of artificial manure is unnecessary, and 

 tiiat the larger the quantity used the less proportionate return is there 

 for the outlay. 



The experiments would have been much more numerous had not 

 many of the plots been so much injured by the " fly," that they were 

 not considered satisfactory, and therefore have been omitted. 



The analysis of the various manures used has been obtained at con- 

 siderable expense from a chemist whose name is well known to all agri- 

 culturists ; and as it has been hinted that manufacturers, knowing their 

 manures were to be tested against others, had taken care to have them 

 made on purpose for the trial, it now rests with all purchasers of the 

 manures used in these experiments to decide whether they choose to 

 receive an inferior article, or whether, by compelling the makers of the 

 various manures to guarantee what they sell to correspond with thf 

 analysis here given, they will prevent unprincipled manufacturers from 

 unduly obtaining patronage. 



I hope that farmers will avail themselves of this, as the cost of 

 analysis is very trifling compared with the loss arising from the use of 

 the worthless trash sold under the name of superphosphate of lime. 



Being aware that results will vary upon diflerent soils, and under 

 diflerent management, I shall feel obliged to any of my agricultural 

 friends who will inform me of any experiments they may have tried, 

 and of their success. The soil upon which these experiments have 

 been carried out is very light upon a chalky subsoil ; tlie previous 

 crop, wheat; and the land in a good, but not very high, state of 

 cultivation. 



I trust that agriculturists generally, and those of West Norfolk more 

 particularly, may derive some benefit from these experiments, which, 

 slight as it may be, will amply repay me for what little trouble I have 

 had in carrying them out. 



John Coleman, Jun. 



Longlands, Holkham. 



XIV. — Report on the Exhibition and Trial of Implements and 

 Machinery at the Chester Meeting. By Sir A. K. Macdonald, 

 Bart., Senior Steward. 



The Report of the Judges on " the Steam-plough or Cultivator " 

 haA'ing already been made public, it would have been desirable 

 to have published the Reports of the other Judges of Imple- 

 ments in the last number of the Journal, but unfortunately one 

 very important Report was not received till after the Journal 

 was in circulation. 



For the information of those who were not present at Chester, 

 it may be necessary to mention that immediately below the 

 walls of that ancient city a beautiful meadow of about 84 acres 

 extends to the borders of the river Dee : this meadow is known 



