On Plaister of Paris, — a 
For several years past the Indian corn was in bias that 
had been plaistered four years before, which has been 
evidently much better by the effects of the plaister than 
it would have been without it. 
Query 7. To what products can it be best applied 2 
grain and what kinds? grasses and what kinds ? 
Answer. I think it improves any kind of grass, but 
more particularly red and white clover. 
Query 8. When is the best time to scatter it ? 
Answer. 1 have scattered it at various times without 
regard to any thing but conveniency, and have not found 
any difference in the effect. 
Query 9. What is the greatest product per acre of 
erass, &c. you have known by the means of plaister ? 
Query 10. Have you ever used it with other manure, 
and what ?—and the effects ifany superior to the plais- 
ter alone 2. 
Answer. 9, and 10. In the foregoing. 
Query 11. Is there any difference between the Euro- 
pean and American, plaister ? 
Answer. From the observations I have made, I prefer 
the American. 
Aithough I may already have trespassed on thy pati- 
ence by the length and unconnected manner of treating 
the subject, my desire of communicating something 
useful on a subject which of all temporal concerns is 
the most beneficial to a nation, induces me to proceed; 
frem my own observations, a piece of ground used in 
the way of a garden, or indeed in any other tillage, per- 
haps several times a year for many years successively, 
although frequently manured, will not be as productive 
-as a piece that has been under grass several years, and not 
