166 MANURE GREEN WHEATS. [MARCH. 



land at 4fd. per bushel, struck ; being distributed 

 in the same way, and at the same expence as the 

 last article. Forty bushels per acre is a complete 

 dressing, and costs about \6s. Peat-ashes succeed 

 well, used at the same time, and on the same crops 

 as the last article, except that they apply it on 

 wheat in April, with good 



greatly improve dry chalk soils, but will do liule 

 good on wet land, or cold sward, or on hot sandy 

 lands. This, like most other of their dressings, is 

 little affected by the season, provided wet falls soon 

 after it is laid on the land. 



4. Peat-dust costs the same as the ashes, 

 and is sowed in the same manner and quantities. 

 It answers equally well, and in every way the same 

 as the ashes. Peat-dust is esteemed the best pos- 

 sible dressing for an onion-bed in a garden, and is 

 not found to promote weeds more than other cl. 

 ings. It has great effect on thistles, which it is 

 scattered upon, causing them to wither, as if 

 scorched ; but they generally recover, unless the 

 dust be repeated. The occupiers of the chalk- 

 lands in this neighbourhood are under considerable 

 apprehensions for the loss of the valual 

 manures, by the proposed drainage of Prisles Me 

 intelligence of which 1; hcd them already. 



5. Folding is used ;:s a top -dressing, and on 



but tl ' ! Mm Chatham Unrrncks (not kept under cover), 

 and not fir 1 those crops to the amount of 



a load of hny superiority per acre. " The cinder, therefore/' says 



Mr. Dann, " is better than the ash." 



these, 



