^5 Experiments on Manures, 



means ; but where the lands were manured by this weed, the 

 corn was not afFefted. 



This green fea-weed, taken direftly from the creeks, and 

 put into hog-pens, and fome dirt or turf thrown thereon, and 

 being trodden and mixed together by the hogs, within a 

 few weeks becomes very fine, when it is thrown out and more 

 put in ; in this manner large quantities may be made, which is 

 generally ufed for dunging corn in the holes, and is a very good 

 manure. It is to be obferved, that this weed comes up in the 

 fpring, from the roots, and about harveft, gets its full growth and 

 falls down ; by raking it from the bottom at that time, you get 

 it when it is full of its juices, but if negle6led, it lofes its vir- 

 tue, becomes light and] drives on fhore, when it is but of litdc 

 value to plough under the furrow. The raking the bottonp, 

 although many roots and confiderable mud is taken up, yet it 

 does not prevent a crop the next year : on the contrary, the 

 crop is found to be better for raking the bottom the year before. 

 It is further to be obferved, that this weed growing on a muddy 

 bottom, in a creek, is far preferable to that growing on a fandy 

 bottom, or on a muddy bottom in a bay. 



The nfes made of drift Sea- Weed from Bays and Creeks, 



as a Manure. 



The drift fea-weed from bays, being wafhed by the waves, 

 driven on Ihore, and there expofed to the fun, lofes its juices, 

 and foon becomes a fait dry hufli, and if in that ftate turned 



