48 EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE. 



Instead of the marl and night soil, Mr. Bell (the tenant) has 

 tried four tons of lime, five hundred weight of salt, and ten hun 

 dred weight of guano ; and this he thinks, from his experience, 

 answers equally well, at less than half the cost. 



(4.) What crops are grown? Wheat, oats, potatoes, turnips, 

 and hay. 



(5.) What is the amount of produce per acre? About the 

 same quantity as from land of the ordinary kind of average 

 quality. 



(6.) What is the condition of the land afterwards ? Much the 

 same as of other land after cropping. 



(7.) In what state are the manures applied ? In the state in 



enter the town before 10 o clock in the evening, and must be beyond the limits 

 of the town before 5 o clock in the morning.) Sometimes it is carried in boats, 

 on the Mersey and Irlwell, and on the Bridgewater and other canals. It is 

 mixed generally with coal ashes, and is sold at about 1 s. 6d. per ton, and applied 

 to the growth of potatoes and other vegetables. 



It is ascertained that more than one thousand tons of this manure passed by 

 the Cheshire road, alone, weekly, to be used for the growth of potatoes. It is 

 deemed excellent as a preparative for the succeeding crops of wheat and clover. 



From the 16th to the 22d of August, inclusive, 1843, there passed through the 

 Cornbrook bars 647 loads, averaging two tons each, making 1294 tons. The 

 amount of stable dung which passed through the same bars, in the same time. 

 was 1 13 loads, averaging two tons to a load, making 226 tons. 



During that time the farmers were busily engaged in harvest, and of course 

 few of them could leave home. When the dung carts were last counted in the 

 spring, they were found to be double the number here stated ; and the annual 

 return of potatoes from this source may be safely taken at 300,000 loads. 



The amount sent by the Cornbrook bars is supposed equal to all that goes by 

 other roads and conveyances out of Manchester. 



Value and Use of Night Soil. One ton of night soil, mixed, as it generally is. 

 with coal ashes, is considered sufficient for manuring three Cheshire rods, of 64 

 yards each, or 192 square yards, for the usual course of crops, followed by the 

 best farmers, on land of ordinary quality ; viz., potatoes, wheat or oats, clover 

 and other artificial grasses. 



Thus one ton of manure will, on an average, produce, on 192 yards of land, 

 nine bushels of marketable potatoes, of 80 pounds each, which will be one Man 

 chester load of three bushels, or 240 pounds, on every rod of ground ; so that. 

 1000 tons of nigiit soil, passing the Cornbrook bars, may be expected to send 

 back to mnrket 156,000 loads, or&quot; 468,000 bushels of potatoes, annually. 



These facts and calculations, with which my valued friend, Dr. Playfair, has 

 furnished me, arc curious and striking ; ami, if they do not fill a man with pro 

 found and grateful adoration for what Mather calls the wonder-workings of thr&amp;gt; 

 Divine Providence, there can be little difficulty in determining, whatever may I o 

 his pretension?, in what class of animals such a being should be ranked . 



