On Barilla, as a Manure, 89 



it may be taken out and sowed immediately on the land, 

 or spread thin on a floor and dried for use : the wash 

 may be carried to the compost heap or dung- hill, as 

 manure. It is recommended in all cases where Ba- 

 rilla is used as manure, that it be plowed, harrowed, 

 or dug in as soon as possible after being spread on the 

 land ; as, if exposed, the air will rob it of a portion of 

 its salts. 



It is probable, from a due consideration of the com- 

 ponent parts of Barilla, that the use of it as a manure, 

 at the rate of one hundred weight per acre, on sour 

 wet grass land, will, in addition to rendering the herb- 

 age of such land nutritive and abundant, tend to pre- 

 vent its occasioning the rot to sheep and deer which 

 graze on it. 



On Barilla, as a Manure, by the Editor q/' Evans and 

 Ruffy's Farmer''s Journal^ — a JFeekly Paper of re- 

 spectahility ^ published in London, 



Having lately read, and heard in conversation, ver}* 

 high encomiums on the fertilizing powers of Barilla, 

 when used as a manure, I was anxious to go farther 

 than mere hear-say, and to see experimental proofs of 

 its effects ; and being introduced by a friend to the gen- 

 tleman who I believe was the first to whom the thought 

 of using it occurred, I Avas by him ^ery courteously 

 and frankly shewn or told all that he had done by way 

 of experiment. I must premise that, independently 

 of his garden, the chief scene of his experiments was 

 a few acres, taken in from a common, of sour, wet, 

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