SCIENCE AND ART OF AGRICULTURE. 1307 



SUPPLEMENT. !> 1 ' 1L ' >CIj 



manure. 



. Whether it could be adopted ^^^^^tS^^^^^i 

 Uon, af is the mode of its operation. Sir H. DgJ^gg'SS it should be applied hot to the soil, 

 up- in fact, it hardens vegetable fibre, home ' Persons tnu£ it seems better to follow practice; and 

 founding their view upon comical principl es bu a t pre sen ^ ^ gome k 



where it has been mixed heretofore ^^'S to do so still. Dr. Liebig has recently disco, ered that 

 before it is applied to the surface :>t»°uld bj»mw« anJ soda hich are manuring pnnci- 



bu'be the cause what it; may the eff ™J£^£g?$^ ifcou.d be applied m those dist, h t. 

 th . e f It^t^nVunknown^ U«rn. KA. S. E., vol Hi. p.2130 seTcn 



V M 3 r„ «■ < • ^ «»<* **» ■"""""■"; H^r^ ot ' in -redie t ot omparatively little bulk as 



^eminent practical «g*»ta"g«£ EMfflK? opinion, that, • by the discovery of new fer- 



81 44. rAe gr«rf desiderate m 



soil by 

 11 of en 

 i object 



the 

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^onhr fi rZ=^^ 



Igneous manure can be obtained doe, .not .exceed tv ,0 m £ ^ abundant u p y ear , be had, 



whereas, on lands in the ''n" iedlate ;' c ™Vreauenav occur in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, three- 

 mfe half, and, in some **■»&. «ft5 irequenth occnr^ ^^ sub>tance> which can tetrans- 

 tilths are advantageous!} devoted to t 1 v F • 



&£ Ifnow undir the six ^if^-course ^co^ent^ t^^. ;— J^ near^ as much 

 ■an be made to fatten three bullocks uitndot WM. formerl when three years, and might .therefore 

 enriched, though left only two year, "P a ?' u ^;.f ^"fe by which two-fifths would be annually demoted 



S3.—SI •■""'»"', S^SSb»wSe "ooldb, .UU arte aogm.o.ed m proportion to toe 



MSMBSSM 



ve 

 ent. 





mentioned substances was so neanv •*.« — — 



otch acre may therefore be thus statett.— applied, produced on an average 



', ^^1^^^^^^^^ aPP ^ 41 ° ; aDd Uie atre W 



oFthe three first-mentioned substances^wa 



The result per Scotch acre may he efore be t^^ ^ 



The three acres to i 

 each '272 stones of hay 

 top-dressing produced Mb 





