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&quot; In the third experiment, guano was used against bone-dust 

 alone, applied, as is usual in that district, at the rate of sixteen 

 bushels per acre. The guano was used at the rate of two hun 

 dred weight only per acre. The drills manured with the latter 

 showed a very early superiority, and were ready for the hoe 

 fully eight days earlier than the rest of the field. This more 

 vigorous growth they maintained throughout ; and when the 

 turnips (the white stone globe variety) were weighed, on the 

 22d March, after standing throughout the winter, the result was 

 as follows (the roots and tops being in this instance retained): 



&quot; Two drills guano, 31 cwt. 4 st. 



Two &quot; bone-dust, 24 cwt. 7 st. &quot; 



&quot; The following table, extracted from the Scotsman, is the 

 result of an experiment on a field which had, till the present 

 crop, been in grass from time immemorial. The soil was a dry, 

 friable loam. The turnips were sown on the 20th of May, and 

 lifted and weighed on the 27th of November, 1843. 



Guano has been applied to winter wheat, both in drills arid 

 broadcast, and with signal success. It has been applied, like 

 wise, with great success, to grass and pasture land, as the follow 

 ing statement will show : 



&quot; On an eight-acre field, sown with three hundred weight of 

 guano, and three bushels of Italian rye-grass per acre, on the 

 29th of April, cut on the 3d of August, the produce weighed, 

 when cut, eighteen tons, and when dry and ready for stack, four 

 tons, per acre. Much of this crop was upwards of five feet long. 

 So rapid was the growth, that, fifty hours after cutting, it had 

 again sprung up to the height of three and one eighth inches. 

 With such grass, and such manure, so easily convertible into 

 liquid, I see no reason to doubt that the cottager, with his five 

 roods of land, could supply his house with vegetables, and CO\T 

 with winter and summer food, thereby providing for his family 

 an almost entire subsistence/ 

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