I/O ALDEK, ' [MARCH, 



out vegetating,; which, however,, it never fails to 

 do, when brought near enough to the surface by 

 the plough. Pigeons are supposed to pick up con- 

 siderable quantities of charlock-seed after land has 

 been ploughed. These lands are very subject to 

 be over- run with .black grass (alopecurus agrestis),. 

 which is said to impoverish it much. 



6. Pige&t&'t*ctung costs Is. per bushel heaped, 

 and about a halfpenny per bushel bringing to the 

 land : it is used as malt-dust, and does good in any 

 soil or season. 



7. Soap-boilers' ashes, or wood-ashes from 

 which ley has been made, is to be had (in small 

 quantities only) at 61. per bushel heaped, and costs 

 about id. carriage: the effect of these on cold 

 sward is very great. 



8. Hogs-hair, which is sometimes to be had 

 in London at about Qs. per quarter (the same 

 quantity as furriers' clippings), and carriage 3d. 

 applied in the same manner with clippings, answers 

 well. 



Seal-hair, rcMbite -dwtg, and //w, have been 

 tried upon these soils, and found -to answer no 



good purpc 



ALDER. 



If a farmer has an alder-car on his farm, or 

 stubs of them by a river, he should be attentive to 

 cut them when the bark will peel, ;;nd immediately 

 soak them two months in a pond. This hardi-ji.s 

 the wood to such at. is to improve it greatly*. 



>.als, vol. ix. p. 485. 



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