ITS ACTION UPON TURNIPS. POTATOES, WHEAT. ETC. 



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Yellow Turnips. 



Produce per acre. 

 Top-dressed with tons. cwt. Locality. 



Guanof 5 cwt. 32 2 J 



Rape-dust 15 cwt. 24 11 VBarochan, near Paisley. 



Bone-dust 30 bush. 17 2 ) 



-. Guano 3 



Rape-dust 1 



'. Guano 4 



Rape-dust 1 



Bone-dust 45 



'. Guano 4 



Rape-dust 1 ton. 



Bone-dust 45 



Barochan. In all these cases 

 the manures were put in 

 alone with the potatoe cut- 

 tings, no other manure be- 

 ing afterwards added . 



As a top-dressing to the young potatoe crop at Erskine, in 1842, one 

 cwt. of guano per acre produced no important increase. This might, 

 however, be owing to the extreme dryness of the season ^Appendix, 

 No. IX.) 



Wheat. 



Produce per acre. 



Top-dressed with bush. lbs. 



1°. Guano 1 cwt. 48 



Rape-dust 16 cwt. 51 



Undressed 47| 



2°. Guano 3 cwt. 30 



Undressed 24 



3°. Guano 2 cwt. 32 



Undressed^ 31 



4°. Guano 1 cwt. 46 



Nitrate of Soda. . 1 cwt. 51 



Undressed 44 



5°. Guano li cwt. 45 



Nitrate of Soda., li cwt. 41 



Undressed 39 



Locality. 



J Lennox Love, near 

 > dington — 



rg i Barochan. 



Had- 



drought very great. 



Gadgirth, near Ayr. 



20 

 31 

 15 i 



18 V Erskine. Renfrewshire.il 

 4) 



^) 



> Seisdon, Worcestershire.§ 



0) 



Barley. 



Guano 3 cwt 64 



Undressed 47 15 



Oats. 



Barochan. 



) Lennox Love, near Had- 

 i dington. 

 16 . 



Erskine, Renfrewshire. 



[6V 



1°. Guano 2 cwt 70 



Undressed 52 



2°. Guano 1 cwt 48 



Nitrate of Soda . . 1 cwt. 50 



Undressed 49 



t Mixed with 20 bushels of wood-ashes. 



t The undressed grain was of supprior qualify, yielding 76J per cent, of fine flour, whils 

 that dressed with guano gave only 68| per cent. 



I The grain dressed with guano weighed half a pound per bushel less than the otherg. 



§ The guano gave 4 cwt. more straw than the nitrate, and 11 cwt. more than the undressed. 

 The undressed grain also weighed half a pound less per bushel than either of the other two. 

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