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On Leeched Ashes as a Manure. By Thomas Newbold 
of New Jersey, M. C. 
Read August 15th, 1809, 
Washington, June 11th 1 809,, 
Sir, 
I received yours of the 3d instant, and can assure you 
my talents as a farmer have been much over-rated.—I 
will however proceed to answer your several queries 
as wellas Iam able. The soil I have used the leeched or 
drawn ashes on, is a gravelly loam: and so far as I have 
been able to discover, that manure answers best for 
clover and Indian corn: it also answers very well for 
wheat and rye; but is not equal to stable manure for 
either of the latter crops. I have used ashes generally 
on an open fallow, put on at the time of seeding, and 
ploughed in with the seed; I have put it on after the 
grain has been sown, with very good success, but prefer 
the other method. Gypsum will answer little or no pur- 
pose to grass on ashed land; from that circumstance I 
infer that they partake more or less of the same qua- 
lities.—I think as near as can be ascertained by the eye, 
I have taken off of land that had been ashed, and had 
produced a crop of wheat, and two crops of clover, 35 
or 40 bushels of corn per acre, and that without any 
other help than the single dressing of ashes, The land 
was so poor before, I am confident it would not have 
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