S^ Experiments on Manures^. 



taken from creeks and fwamps ; by leached aflies ; and by die 

 fifh called manhaden or mofbankers. 



Experiments made with Green Sea- Weed. 



A FLOAT is made of pine boards of between one and two 

 tons burthen, at the expence of about four dollars, into which 

 the fea-weed from the bottom of the creek is raked with a 

 wooden rakeof fmiple conftru6lion, the head being nine inches 

 lono- and two inches fquare ; the teedi about feven inches long, 

 and the handle fix or eight feet, according to the depth of the 

 water where it is ufed. A man will get four ox-cart loads of 

 this weed in a day, and land it on the Ihore, for which you pay 

 fourteen pence per load. It is commonly thrown from the 

 boat in large long heaps, not unlike in appearance to long hay 

 Hacks ; in this fituation it foon heats, and by a ferme'ntatiori^ 

 \vhich takes place, the parts in a fhort time are fo feparated as 

 to be too fine to be loaded with pitch-forks. Sometimes this 

 weed is taken direBly from the boats, carted and fpread on the 

 land defigned for a crop of wheat, and immediately turned under 

 the furrow. There appears ta be no material difference in 

 the crop produced from the weed taken direftly fi'om the creek 

 and ploughed in, and that taken from the heap. Twenfy-five 

 bufhels of wheat have been produced from an acre with thirty 

 loads of this manure, and fifteen bufhels from twenty loads on 

 poor lands, which otherwife would not pay for the labour and 

 cxpencc of tilling ; but this quantity is too much on an average s, 



