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trenches an able-bodied cooly will make from 

 twenty-five to thirty daily. When the first has 

 been made (beginning always at the bottom of the 

 hill, of course), a layer of green vegetation, " mana 

 grass," or bracken, some six inches deep, should be 

 laid in it, arid on this the manure should be care- 

 fully strewn, at the rate of not less than one 

 basketful or cooly load for each tree : all lumps 

 should be broken up, and the whole spread evenly 

 over the grass, &c., in the trench. The trench 

 next above may now be begun, the earth dug out 

 of which will naturally roll down into that below, 

 covering over the valuable deposit. 



Manuring in this manner, which of all others I 

 consider the most efficacious and satisfactory, will 

 not probably cost much less than j or 8 per acre, 

 at any rate should the materials have to be carried 

 any distance. If, however, as is calculated by 

 trustworthy authorities, an increase of some three 

 and a half cwts. per acre in the crop for at least 

 three years, may, under ordinary circumstances, 

 be looked for as the result, it will be seen that even 

 this outlay would be highly remunerative. 2 



The old common method of applying cattle 

 manure by simply digging a small hole close to 

 each tree, smashing the principal feeding roots 



2 Mr. Wall's Essay gives an estimated increase of from 

 two to five cwts. per acre for from two to four years. 



