38 "On Ploister of Paris, 
ver on three acres, which had been manured with the 
same kind of dung, and planted with corn last year.— 
Three bushels of N. S. plaister per acre immediately , 
followed the barley. The clover in both, looks extreme- 
ly well, and may be cut this year if I chuse it. Ifa pre- 
ference can be given, it must be to the acre in potatoes 
last year, and manured this spring. They were both 
ploughed. late last fall after taking in the crops. Lime 
I have not tried. I this spring sowed plaister on two 
pieces of mixed grass, and a few days after wood.ashes 
at the rate of ten or twelve bushels to the acre, as near 
as I can guess, was sown on one of them ; they have 
been cut and fed green; that on which the ashes were 
sown has been twice cut, the other but once, and at this 
moment they are both equally fit to cut again. Except 
in this instance of the ashes, I have never had more grass 
from lands previously manured for other crops, than 
from those which had not,* although an equal propor- 
tion of plaister and grass seed had been sowed on each.{ 
* The result of the dung.applied on the barley ground, 
cannot be known until next year. 
— 
+ Plaister with Jime, and with ashes, never fails to agree. 
There is an instance apparently contradictory in the memoirs, 
2 volume, page 105, I never doubt tacts asserted by respec- 
table men. But I suppose the grasses were not of the trefo/ 
tribe. On other grasses, the plaister has little, if any, effect, 
as repeated experience proves. I therefore think that the 
plaister and ashes were not at variance ; but the grasses were 
not of the kind liable to be benefited by the plaister. 
| eg 
September 1810. 
