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gle, or drifted sea-ware, has been spread on old grazing 

 pastures, and has had a wonderful effect in increasing the 

 quantity of herbage, and in making the land eat cleaner. 

 It acts as a condiment, for both cattle and sheep not only 

 eat the grass on which it has been spread with avidity, but 

 throve well, and were made sooner fat.* Mr Newton of 

 Cartlandhill, near In verkei thing, mixes it with long dung, 

 and finds that it makes a most excellent compost. The 

 ware, however, in that part of the frith, is of a weaker sort, 

 and has less saline substances in it. When of a more 

 powerful description, it should never be used as a compost, 

 but laid fresh on the land. If there is no land under the 

 plough ready for it, let it be put on grass lands, but in that 

 case great care should be taken to lay it thin, otherwise it 

 will kill the clover plants. 



On some farms near Dunbar, the land is covered with 

 sea-weed every second year, which enables it to go through 

 that severe rotation, 1. Turnips; 2. Spring-sown winter 

 wheat ; 3. Clover, either cut or made into hay ; and, 4. 

 Wheat again. It is only, however, by the farmers having 

 such a commandof manure, eating the turnipson the ground, 

 and drilling and hand-hoeing the wheat crops, that such a 

 system could be persevered in. For the second wheat crop 

 it answers extremely well, to apply the sea-weed early in 

 spring, on the grass to be cut, if it is laid on in dry wea- 

 ther. Sea-weed should never be applied on ground for 

 turnips after March, as it seldom incorporates with the 



* Another of my correspondents states, that he has had sea-ware 

 spread on old pastures ; that it produced a great quantity of grass, but 

 the cattle, he observed, were not fond of eating it. Perhaps it had 

 grown too rank before the cattle were put in, and it ought to have been 

 cut for hay. 



