l6S MANURE GREEN WHEATS. [MARCH. 



London in the same way, and generally at the 

 same prices as the last article. The large shavings 

 cost about 2s. less per quarter. Horn-shavings are 

 used in the same way and quantities as the last 

 article, except that they want no pricking, and the 

 large are generally ploughed into the land three 

 months before sowing wheat or barley. Horn- 

 shavings answer in most soils and seasons, except 

 very dry ones, when they will not work. The small 

 shavings are much the most useful. 



3. Woollen rags cost in London from 3s. 6d. 

 to 4s. 6d. per cvvt. : the carriage home Is. per cwt. 

 In the country they are bought at 4s. (3d. to 5s. 

 and are collected at about 2^d. per cwt. The rags 

 being generally in large pieces, arc housed and 

 chopped at the cxpcnce of 5d. or (3d. per cwt. ; 

 the extra expence of housing and carting to the 

 land is about 4d. per cwt. They are sown by hand, 

 and ploughed in three months before sowing wheat. 

 or barley : the quantity used is six to ten cwt. per 

 statute-acre. Woollen rags, like furriers' clippings, 

 hold moisture, and are adapted for dry, gravelly, and 

 chalk soils, and succeed in dry seasons better than 

 most manures, but they do little good on wet soils. 

 London rags are found much better than those 

 collected in the country ; but the danger of catch- 

 ing the small-pox in chopping and sowing them, 

 deters many farmers from their use. 



4. .S//rr//.v-/n;//rrv, and Fell mongers cul/ings, 

 arc bought of the neighbouring fell mongers at 

 about 6d. per bushel, heaped loose : carriage to the 



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