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MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MANURES. 



BY ROBERT MONTEITH, ESQ. OF CARSTAIRS. 



1. Oat Crop, 1843. — Part of a field manured 

 with 267 lbs. of guano, at the cost of 31s. per im- 

 perial acre, produced per acre 59 bushels. 



Manured with 10 bushels bone- 

 dust, at the cost of 23s. 4d. per impe- 

 rial acre, produced per acre 43 do. 



The difference may be stated as follows : 

 Cost of guano 31s. produce 59 bush, at 2s. 6d. £7 7 6 

 Costofbonea23s. 4d. do. 43 do. do. 5 7 6 



7s. 8d. £2 



Deduct difference of manure 7 8 



2. Hay Crop, 1843.— To part of a field, ma- 

 nured the previous year with farm-yard dung, 

 was given 267 lbs. of guano per imperial acre, 

 at the cost of 31s. and the extra produce, per 

 acre, was 22 cwt. of hay, which, at 3s. per cwt. 

 is £3 6 



Deduct expense of guano 1 11 



Leading in favor of guano i.1 15 per acre. 



Leaving in favor of Guano £112 4 



3. With Turnip, 1843. 



<=- S Description of manure tried, and quantity per imperial 

 g. »■ acre. 



Cost 01 



Dung pr 



acre 



Cost of 



other 



Manures 



per acre. 



Total |f™d«ce per 

 impenalacre 



stored 

 Nov. 15, 1343. 



cost per 

 acre. 



IGuano 4 cwt. 



1-16 

 1-16 

 1 



1 

 1 

 1 



Yds. 

 Dung 28 

 " 28 

 •' 28 

 " 28 

 " 28 

 " 28 

 " 28 



Sulphate of Soda, 1 cwt. 

 Burned Bones, 6 cwt. . . 

 Bone-dust, 20 bushels... 



Gypsum, 2^ cwt 



Guano, 4 cwt 



Beech-ashes, 48 bushels 



Gypsum, 6 cw^t 



Bone-dust, 25 bushels 



Do. 12 bushels, and 133 lbs. guano 



Guano, 356 lbs 



Guano. 267 lbs 



5 12 

 5 12 

 5 12 

 5 12 

 5 12 

 5 12 

 5 12 



s. d. 



B 



4 

 2 2 

 6 8 



8 

 2 8 



12 



1 



4 3 



2 14 



1 18 

 1 8 



Tons. Cwt. 

 11 8 



19 



1 



13 



12 



a failure. 

 9 6 

 11 15 

 11 

 10 15 



November 30, 1843. — The turnip crop on the j part of the coimtry, the soil being hea\7 and 

 field in which the above experiments were under medium quality. All the turnip crops in 

 tried was fully one-third deficient in quantity i this neighborliood are, however, from one-third 

 from crops generally grown on such laud in this j to one-half deficient this season. 



ExPESSE OF Keeping Horses. — In a late 

 Eaglish Monthly Magazine, there is an elabo- 

 rate essay on the winter and summer keeping 

 of Farm Horses. Though the whole of it is in- 

 teresting to read, the articles of food, brought 

 into the comparison, are so different from those 

 in use in our country, that it would not do to 

 give up the space that the whole essay would 

 occupy. But look here at the conclusion to 

 which the writer arrives : 



Thuai then, it is seen that the cost of keeping 

 each horse upon a farm of 120 imperial acres of 

 heavy land, all nuder crop, is about £8 !)s. 5d. 

 during the five .summer months, and £12 12s. 

 2^d. for the seven winter months, or in all £21 

 lis. 7jd. being a saving of £2 28. 2jd. in favor 

 {72S) 



of bean straw and boiled raa.shes as compared 

 to hay and hard corn, for the winter ; and a 

 saving of £2 8s. 9d. in the case of posting 

 horses for a period of six months; or a clear 

 gain of £18 9s. 8:Jd. to the farmer on the winter 

 keeping of nine horses, and of £131 12s. 6d. to 

 the postmaster on fifty-four horses during tbe 

 winter — no small matter in these times, taken 

 in connection \vith the positively improved con- 

 dition of both classes of horses, and the regular 

 performance of ordinary work in both cases. 

 Otherwise the comparative saving would be ot 

 little avail, were the horses not at the same time 

 found efjaal, and more tlian equal, to their or- 

 dinary work ; for no greater error can be com- 

 mitted by any farmer than to oUoir hh horfcs 

 to fall off for trant of nutritions prorender. 

 esjie.ciaUy m winter, with the prospect of long 

 I days of severe spring labor before them. 



