yo Experiments on Manures. 



with fome difficulty you pull it out, you may determine that 

 mud unfit for manure, it being only loam, or clay foaked with 

 water j but if your paddle, or pole, is drawn out eafily, the 

 mud is fit for manure. This mud may be taken from the 

 bottom, in floats ufed for fea-weed, as above dcfcribed. A 

 fort of hoe is ufed to take up this mud from the bottom, made 

 by riveting an old hoe to an old iron ftiovel, at the top ; by 

 putting a handle in the eye, you have the inftrument with 

 which you load a float almofl; as foon as you throw it out when 

 brought to fliore. A man may get as many tons of this mud 

 in a day as he can of fea-weed : it is carted into heaps, which 

 fhould not be fo large as to prevent the froft from penetrating 

 through the whole. This mud being taken out in the fummer, 

 and expofed to the frofts during the winter, in the fpring 

 becomes as fine as leached afiies, and is a good manure, 

 efpecially for grafs: being fpread in poor loamy land, it 

 brings up white clover, fimilar to afhes, though it takes a larger 

 quantity. I dunged corn in the holes with this manure, but 

 it did not anfwer ; I put too much in a hill. This is likewife 

 a good manure for wheat, but has not yet been much attended 

 to ; but the probability is, that it will be found equal to any 

 other manure which can be procured at fo fmall an expence. 



The mud taken from fwamps is often ufed as a manure; I 

 have known fome which have proved very good, others again 

 have not anfwered the purpofe. The bell I have feen are 

 thofe which, being cleared and drained, produce grafs, turnips. 



