EXPERIMENTS WITH SPECIFIC MANURES. 



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Farmer's Almanac, 184/ 



Art. XL. — experiments WITH SPECIFIC MANURES. 



By Mr. Alex. James Main, Whitehall, Lasswade. 



[Mr. Main closes an interesting account of his experiment.s, which ap- 

 pear to have been very carefully and ably conducted, with the following 

 General Remarks and Conclusions.] 



General Henuo-hs. 



On reviewing- tlie results obtained from the experiments re- 

 corded in the succeeding- tables/ some important facts present 

 themselves, well worthy of a more jiarticnlar description. 

 This I shall proceed to g-ive as succinctly as possible. And, 

 first, I would remark the fact, proved in the tables, that one 

 manure may be successful in one locality and not in another, 

 .and rice versa. 



Sulphate of soda has ])roved itself, on this firm, a valuable 

 top-dressing- on oats ; svlpliafe of ammonia the reverse. In 

 other experiments on the same crop, conducted in other 

 places, and reported in the " Transactions of the Hig-hland 

 and Agricultural Society," the effects of the two substances 

 were completely reversed. Sulphate of ammonia was the 



' The valuable and instructive tables referred to liere and in succeeding 

 parts of this article, are in the vol. of the Tram, liiyh. Soc. from which 

 this extract is taken. — Ed. F. F. 



