}64 MANURE GREEN WHEATS. [MARCH. 



dressings), at 3d. per bushel. From these heaps a 

 common seed-scuttle is filled, and a man walking 

 the length of the lands, sows the soot in the same 

 manner as corn is sown. The expence of sowing 

 is a halfpenny per bushel. The quantity used per 

 statute acre, is from twenty to forty Winchester 

 bushels. In general thirty bushels are used for a 

 complete dressing; ?'. e. when dung, or some other 

 manure, has not been previously applied to the 

 same crop, which is very frequently their practice, 

 and the quantity of top-dressing is then diminished 

 to about one-half of a complete dressing. Of soot, 

 a complete dressing as above, costs 30s. to 36s. per 

 acre. Soot is found to answer best on wheat in 

 April. It likewise succeeds on pease or clover, in 

 the same month, and has a good effect sown with 

 barley in the beginning of April, and harrowed in. 

 A slight dressing of soot is used at any time in the 

 spring, when grubs or worms appear to injure the 

 young corn. The worms frequently make great 

 havock here, by drawing the blades of young corn 

 after them into their holes : this, soot prevents 

 best. Soot thinly distributed on newly-sown tur- 

 nips, just before they come up, prevents the fly or 

 grub from injuring them, provided no rain falls to 

 wash it into the soil. Soot answers best on light dry 

 chalk soils, and in moderately wet seasons. It 

 does little good on strong or wet land, or in very 

 dry seasons, unless sown earlier than usual. The 

 London soot from coals is rarely bought unmixed 

 with cork- dust, coal -ashes, or sweepings of the 



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