'io experiments on gypsum. Stpf. 26^ 



Resu/t. 



" When compared with the last divison, the first produ- 

 ced fifteen bunches of lucerne more ; the second afforded 

 only twelve of exceft j the third produced thirty bunches 

 more than the last." 



Expei-iment second. 



" The same quantities of each manure were lajd'on a 

 raoist meadow, of four arpents, divided equal%^ in the 

 same manner. 



■ " The peat afhes produced nearly the same effect as 

 above ; the gypsum made a great difference in the crop ; 

 the grafs pufhed out much stronger, and was of a better 

 fjuality, and it yielded twenty-two bunches more than that 

 which had nothing. 



" Pigeons dung has long been known to improve moist 

 meadows very much, by extirpating bad kinds of grafses, 

 bringing white clover in its stead, and augmenting the 

 crop. It produced one fourth more." 



These experiments still arc lefs accurate than could be 

 •wiihed ; yet it clearly appears that gypsum, as a manure, in 

 this instance, operated more powerfully than peat alhes, on: 

 moist meadow ground, though lefs so on lucerne. It is. 

 seldom we can get all that we desire, but when we ad- 

 vance a step, our labour has not been in vain. 



SHEEP FED ON THE tEAVES OF TB.EES. 



Without a rigid economy, agriculture can' never be 

 carried to its highest pitch of perfection j and for the want 

 of it much waste is sustained, and great lofses incurred in 

 many parts of Britain. In other countries they are often 

 obliged to have recourse to expedients for supporting thein 

 lifve stock which we would despise j but which we might 

 often imitate with great profit. The following affords a 

 lefson of this sort : 



" In the month of June," says Mr Crette de Palluel, "" fore- 

 seeing a scarcity of forage, and desirous of finding a food 

 for my flieep without consuming my vetches, I fell upon 



