Cultivation of Grafs Land. Application of Manure on Hay Lands. 4C5 



effects ; but in that of compoft, it may be applied with fuccefs at (hotter intervals, 

 Marl is likewife afubftance, efpecially when it is of the rich foapy kind, that may be 

 made ufe of with much advantage as a top-drefling on grafs lands ; but as its ope 

 ration is flow, it cannot be repeated at {hort intervals, except when employed in 

 the ftate of a compoft with dung. Woollen rags, when rendered fmali by being 

 chopped into pieces, may be laid on land in the ftate of fward ; but as they require 

 a confiderable length of time to fink down and become mixed with the foil, fo as 

 to be well covered by the grafs, they cannot be repeated at ftiort intervals. After 

 they have been fully incorporated with the land, their beneficial effects are conlU 

 derable, as have been fhewn by the trials of different cultivators. 



There are feveral other materials that are occafionally ufed as top-dreflings on 

 grafs lands ; fuch as lime in combination with rich vegetable earth and with peat, 

 the afhes derived from the combuftion of peaty fubftances, coal afhes, and foot. 

 All thefe have been made ufe of with good effects when thinly fprcad out over the 

 furface fvvards of lands in the ftate of grafs, as has been already fufficiently fhown.* 

 The three laft have been found to produce the beft effecls in being difperfed over 

 the new lays of the artificial grafs kinds. All applications of this fort fliould be 

 applied about the beginning of March, being fpread over the furface as evenly as 

 poflible. If it can be done before a mower of rain it will be the better, as it 

 is of advantage to have them earned down to the roots of the graffes as foon as 

 poflible after they are laid upon the land. 



In the putting of manure upon lands of this fort, fome attention is neceflary not 

 to fuffer too much to be placed out in any of the heaps, but to have them fet out 

 as much as poflible in not too large equal proportions, and at regular diftances 

 from heap to heap : as, where the contrary is the cafe, it not only takes up more 

 time, and caufes much more trouble to the labourer in fpreading them, but does 

 not admit of the work being performed in fo regular or fo exact a manner. Be- 

 fides, when the heaps are fet out too large, more injury is done to the grafs plants 

 on the furface where they ftood, if not foon fpread out ; which fhould alv/ays be 

 the cafe. The carts employed in many diftricts for fetting out dung in heaps are 

 by no means convenient for the purpofe. In this neighbourhood this fort of bufi- 

 nefs is far from being well executed, except where fmall carts are in ufe. From the 

 large ones commonly made ufe of, the heaps are apt to he fet out not only very 

 unequal in fize, but much too large, and there is confiderable trouble in conducting 



* Section on Manures, and After-management of new Lays, 

 VOL. II, 3 I 



