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LIQUID MANURE. 



sufficient to fix the ammonia in a cubic yard of dung*. He 

 also believed Mr. Pearson to be quite rig'Ht in his remarks as 

 to the superphosphate of lime answering- well on clay soils 

 for the turnip crop ; for potash, which was so requisite a 

 constituent to the growth of the turnip, was generally 

 present in much gi-eater abundance in the clay soils than in 

 the better descriptions of turnip soils. But it must be borne 

 in mind that, although the superphosphate of lime answers 

 well as a manure for the turnip crop upon clay land, yet it 

 will be requisite occasionally to apply, during the rotation of 

 cropping, other descriptions of manure, otherwise the land 

 would be impoverished, because the superphosphate of liine 

 does not contain all the necessary ingredients to constitute 

 the food of every kind of crop. 



Mr. Dixon, the Secretary, having experienced, in a 

 droughty season or two, ill effects from excessive evapora- 

 tion, when manure was applied in the early part of summer, 

 and exposed to the sun in working the land through the 

 season, advocated the late application of manure to the 

 fallows for wheat. 



Mr. Pilkington, upon the whole, did so too ; he adverted 

 to the impropriety of applying manure in the early part of 

 summer on fallows, before they were thoroughly cleared of 

 root weeds. 



Agricultural Gazette, August 29, 1846. 



Art. XLIX.— liquid MANURE— MODE OF APPLICATION. 

 By Mr. W. C. Jolly. 



The following account by Mr. W. C. Jolly, land-agent in 

 Scotland, of the application of liquid manure, upon a farm in 

 the neighbourhood of Glasgow, belonging to Mr. Harvey, is 

 highly important ; it has been in operation for two years. 

 The liquid employed is the waste from the byres and stables, 

 and from a distillery, collected and pumped up by the same 

 jn-ocess as I understand this company mean to use, over u 

 stand-pipe, and carried out nearly 2 miles in a direct line 

 through the fields, 3 to 4 miles of pipes altogether. Mr. 

 Harvey keeps from 400 to 500 cows, and has a distillery on 



