18 Qn Plaister of Paris. 
Head your observations with each of the queries to 
which they respectfully apply, and be pleased to favour 
me with them as soon as your leisure will permit. 
I am, with sincere esteem, 
Your obedient servant, 
Ricuarp PETERS. 
Mr. W. West. 
Query 1. How long have you used the plaister? 
Answer. About eleven years, without disappointment 
in its effects. 
Query 2. What state was your land in when you 
began the use of it ? 
Answer. My land chiefly when I began to apply it, 
though naturally of the first quality, had been nearly a 
century under bad management, and tired down. I 
ploughed up about five or six acres, and dressed it 
with a rich earth about old buildings that grass had 
grown over, and rotted it down in itself, and applied 
about thirty loads to the acre, sowed it with winter 
barley, the spring following with clover, the next spring 
with plaister of Paris; its product in grass was allowed 
to be equal to any that had any where been seen. I 
mowed it two summers, and have grazed it ever since, 
and the sod is now in good perfection. I redressed it 
last summer with plaister, and its stimulation very good; 
the sod is green grass, white clover with a mixture of 
red. This piece with a number of others, laid down in 
grass with different kinds of manure, and plaistered, 
will now feed as many cattle as acres, and from the 
