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It had two good ploughings then, and it had 

 two good ploughings again this year, but had 

 no manure, except the part above-mentioned 

 and one other part at a great distance from it. 

 So that the trial was very fair indeed. 



196. In every instance the ashes produced 

 great effect ; and I am now quite certain, that 

 any crop may be raised with the help of this 

 manure ; that is to say, any sort of crop ; for, 

 of dung, wood-ashes, and earth-ashes, when all 

 are ready upon the spot, without purchase or 

 carting from a distance, the two former are 

 certainly to be employed in preference to the 

 latter, because a smaller quantity of them will 

 produce the same effect, and, of course, the ap 

 plication of them is less expensive. But, in 

 taking to a farm unprovided with the two 

 former ; or under circumstances which make it 

 profitable to add to the land under cultivation, 

 what can be so convenient, what so cheap, as 

 ashes procured in this way ? 



197. A near neighbour of mine, Mr. DAYREA, 

 sowed a piece of Swedish Turnips, broad-cast, 

 in June, this year. The piece was near a 

 wood, and there was a great quantity of clods 

 of a grassy description. These he burnt into 

 ashes, which ashes he spread over one half of 

 the piece, while he put soaper's ashes over the 

 other part of the piece. I saw the turnips in 



