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trout and other small fish in a rapid running river, it struck 

 me that I could not be disappointed in using it on the little 

 pests that were destroying my roses and other flowers, it 

 therefore served the double purpose of destroying the insects 

 and of feeding the plants, in short, it is an excellent liquid 

 manure. 



Judging from those experiments, and observing Sir Robert 

 Kean's remarks on the experiments made, by his advice, at 

 Market-hill, as described by the parties at the Market-hill 

 Agricultural Society's meeting, I have advised a second pit to 

 be prepared, at least three feet and a half lower than the first, 

 as a receptacle for all the water or matter which may drain 

 from it, and as charred ashes can be procured by any farmer 

 who has bog ground, or old meadow ground, I should say that 

 a proper quantity should be prepared, and drawn to the pit 

 Should there be no dry ashes, turf mould, or rubbish and 

 weeds, will be sufficient to absorb the fertilising matter that 

 the steeping in water, heated by fermentation, had abstracted 

 from the Flax during the macerating process, and having it 

 thrown into the pit to collect and take up the liquid, it should 

 be turned out again to leave room for more steep water, and 

 placed in a heap by itself as manure, or under, and as a 

 bottom of a dungheap for the year, where it may imbibe other 

 fertilising matter that may drain down to it from the farm- 

 yard manure, and no doubt but it will turn up in spring equal, 

 if not better, than the best manure made on the farm. 



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It has now been proved beyond any reasonable doubt that 

 nothing can be had equal to linseed for feeding all kinds of 

 farm stock, when ground and mixed with oat, bean, or pea- 

 meal, and that although oil-cake, when unadulterated, has 

 been found very good, it has not been found so economical as 



