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or two and a half cart-loads of moss, instead of three, to 

 one cart-load of dung. From this compost, he has raised 

 as good turnips as from dung alone, and from it has raised 

 as good crops of wheat after fallow, to the extent of forty 

 or fifty acres per annum, as from dung. He has on his 

 farms plenty of moss, and when it is within reach of arable 

 land, he can from experience recommend the moss com- 

 post, as a great acquisition to farmers. 



2. Dr Rennie of Kilsyth has paid particular attention to 

 moss-earth as a manure, and has discovered a very simple 

 process by which it can be rendered valuable. He propo- 

 ses, that it shall be laid alongside of a pool formed for re- 

 ceiving the juice of the dunghill. For ten days it ought to 

 be saturated with that liquid, occasionally turning it during 

 the process of watering ; it should then be allowed to lie in 

 a thick heap, and to acquire a very gentle, almost an im- 

 perceptible degree of fermentation, after which it is fit for 

 application. By the abstraction of its juices, however, it 

 is evident, that the dunghill would be greatly deteriorated. 



As connected with the subject of peat as a manure, it 

 may be proper to remark, that Mr Church of Hitchill 

 strongly recommends what may be considered as a recent 

 improvement in Scotland, namely, the use of peat-ashes as 

 a manure for turnips. They should be burnt in the Berk- 

 shire mode, and though the ashes are said to be a manure 

 of only short duration, yet Mr Church has had satisfactory 

 experience of the advantage to be derived from them. If 

 by their means a good crop of turnips can be obtained, and 

 afterwards eaten off by sheep, the land will thus be as much 

 enriched, as if the turnips were grown from farm-yard ma- 

 nure. Putting on as many ashes as just to cover the sur- 

 face, will secure a good crop. When peat is plentiful, this 

 is an object well worth attention. 



4-. One other improvement in the preparation of manure 



