J74 Experiments on Manures, 



ift. In dunging corn in the holes : put two in a hill in any 

 kind of foil where corn will grow, and you will have a good 

 crop. The Indians on the fea coafts ufed to dung their 

 corn with Wilkes and other fliell fifh, and with fifh if they 

 could get it. 



2d. By fp reading thofe fifh on the ground for grafs, a good 

 crop is produced : put them on a piece of poor loamy land, at 

 the dillance of fifteen inches from each other^on the turf expofed 

 to the fun and air, and by dieir putrefaftion they fo enrich the 

 land, that you may mow about tv/o tons per acre. How long 

 this manure will laft, experience has not yet determined. 



3d. An experiment was made the laft fummer by one of my 

 near neighbours, Mr. Jonathan Tuthilly in raifmg vegetables 

 with this fifli manure. About the firft of June, he carted near 

 half an ox-cart load of thofe fifh on twenty feet fquare of poor 

 light landj being loam mixed with fand. The nfli he fpread as 

 equally as he could by throvving them out of the cart ; being 

 expofed to the weather they were foon confumed : he then 

 raked off the bones to prevent dieir hurting the feet of the 

 children who might go into the garden, and ploughed up the 

 piece, and planted it v.ith cucumbers and a few cabbages. The 

 feafon was extreme dry, and but very few cucumbers were raifed 

 in the neighbourhood, except what grew on this fmall piece of 

 ground, and here the produflion exceeded any thing that had 

 been known s by his own computation and that of his neigh- 



