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COMMUNICATIONS 



MADE TO THE SOCIETY, RELATIVE TO 



M AN U R E S. 



Bt tue HONORABiB EZRA L'HOMMEDIEU, Escj. 



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ITTLE or no attention before the late war, in Suffolk 

 county and other parts on Long-Ifland, was paid to 

 making manure ; the land was eafily tilled, and in moft parts 

 by cropping with wheat was fo reduced, that on an average not 

 more than five or fix bufhels was raifed to the acre. This 

 mode of hufl^andry was ftill purfued, and altho' the land was 

 gradually impoverifhed, the farmer found the crop, altho' fmall, 

 more than would pay for his labour and expence. The wheat 

 infeft, or Heflian Fly, a"s it is commonly called, put an end to 

 this kind of hufbandry, and in that refpe6l has proved a blefrm<T 

 inftead of a curfe. No other way bfeing found to prevent the 

 injury to his crop by this infed but by highly manuring the land, 

 great attention fince has b^en paid to making manure, which in 

 many parts of the country has increafed ten fold. This addition 

 has been made by green fea weed taken direQly from the 

 creeks and bays ; by drifted fea weed prepared in different 

 ways; by making a comport with yard dung and turf; by mud 



