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streets ; yet even in this adulterated state, it is 

 found to answer much better than real country soot 

 from wood. 



2. Coal-bashes cost in London from 6s. to 

 14s. per waggon-load (narrow wheels and four 

 horses), the price depending on the business doing 

 in the brick-fields near town, in which considerable 

 quantities of ashes are used. Carriage included, 

 they cost on the land about 5|d. per bushel. Coal- 

 ashes are bought in small quantities in the neigh- 

 bourhood at 4d. per bushel, and collected to the 

 land at about id. per bushel. They are distrU 

 buted on the land with a shovel, from a cart or 

 wheel-barrow moved along the land. Another, 

 ami perhaps the preferable mode, is sowing them 

 by hand. The former way costs 12d. per waggon- 

 load, the latter 18d. Coal-ashes are used from 

 50 to 60 bushels per statute acre for a complete 

 dressing, which amounts from 23s. to 26s. per 

 acre ; they succeed well, sown on clover in March 

 or April, on dry chalk lands ; and also do much 

 good to sward, applied during any part of the win^ 

 ter or spring. They are never used on wheat. In 

 very dry seasons coal-ashes do little good : triey, as 

 well as most other of these dressings on light land, 

 require rain after being sown, to set them to work*. 



3. Feat-ashes, brought from the neighbour- 

 hood of Flitwick on asses, are delivered on the 



land 



* In 1/pO, Mr. Dann procured from London the finely-sifted 



coal-ashes, which are sold there, and spread them, 45 bi^shels per 



acre, on clover and sainfoin, and the benefit was very trifling j 



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