Experiments on Manures* 7^ 



bours, this twenty feet fquare of ground produced more than 

 forty bufliels of cucumbers, befides fome fine cabbages. I 

 meafured the ground myfelf, and make no doubt of the quantity 

 adjudged to liave grown on the fame. 



By putting thefc fifli on the land for manure, expofed to the 

 air till they are confumed, there can be no doubt that a confi- 

 derable part of the manure is loll by the effluvia which paffes 

 off the putrified fubflance, as is evident from the next experi- 

 ment. 



4th. A4r. Jofcph Glover^ a farmer in Suffolk county, having 

 a fmall poor farm, for a fev/ years paft has gone into the practice 

 of making manure with thefe fifti for the purpofe of enriching 

 his land, which is a loamy foil, dry, and in parts light. He firft 

 carts earth, and makes a bed of fuch circumference as will admit 

 of being nine inches thick ; he then puts on one load of fifb, 

 then covers this load with four loads of common earth ; but if 

 he can get rich dirt, he then covers it with fix loads, and in that 

 manner makes of fifh and earth a heap of about thirty loads ; 

 the whole mafs foon becomes impregnated and turns black. 

 By experience he finds that fifteen ox-cart loads of this manure 

 is a fufficient dreflingfor one acre of his poor land, which pro- 

 duces him thirty bufliels of the bed wr.eat by the acre ; and 

 the next year from the fame land fown with clover feed, he has 

 cut four tons of hay, which he computes at two loads and an 

 half by the acre. The expence of m.aking this manure where 



