MARCH.] MANURE GREEN WHEATS. 



, as on most other soils, answers to good 

 purpose : it succeeds best on dry land. Its effect 

 on these light soils is not entirely attributed to 

 the sheep's dung, but in a great degree to the stiff- 

 ness the land acquires by the treading, which is 

 here found so very beneficial, that they frequently 

 lead the plough-horses a-breast up and down the 

 lands several times after sowing wheat, or other 

 grain, to tread it. 



MANURES TURNED. IN. 



1. Furriers' clippings, which arc bought in Lon- 

 don at 12s. to 13s. per quarter (being a ten bushel- 

 sack crammed full) weighing about 2^ cwt. The 

 carriage to the lands costs 3d. per quarter. They 

 are sown by hand from the seed-scuttle, at about 

 3d. per quarter, on the land intended to be sown 

 with wheat or barley, and immediately ploughed in, 

 after which the seed is sown and harrowed in, 

 when such pieces of the clippings as are left above 

 ground by the harrow, are pricked or shoved into 

 the ground, by the end of a stick, to prevent their 

 being devoured by dogs or crows, who seize them 

 greedily. From two to three quarters are usually 

 sown per statute acre. Clippings answer well on 

 light dry chalk or gravelly soils, where they are 

 supposed to hold moisture, and help the crop 

 greatly in dry seasons. They have but little effect 

 on wet soils. 



2. Horn-shavings, which are of two sorts, 

 small, or turners, and large, which consists of re- 

 fuse pieces of horn. The small are bought in 



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