.416 OF STRAW, ITS VALUE, AND USES. 



the farm. If that straw be much used as food for cattle, 

 the quantity of dung manufactured would fall consider- 

 ably short of what is above stated.* 



Mr Young, who has directed so much attention and 

 ability, for so many years, to agricultural pursuits, is 

 of opinion, that one ton of straw will make four tons of 

 dung; but if earth of any kind, (peat earth in particular), 

 were used for retaining the fluid, the quantity of dung 

 would depend upon the proportion of that material, and 

 may be increased to seven, eight, Dine, or ten ton per 

 acre, according to circumstances. It is certain, that ac- 

 cording to the common management, much urine escapes ; 

 and he is inclined to believe, that by cartful attention, two 

 tons of straw, when the cattle are fed on rich food, amply 

 littered with straw, and the urine absorbed by'good earth, 

 would manure an acre of turnips. 



The advantage of using rich dung, in preference to that 

 derived from inferior articles, cannot be too strongly im- 

 pressed on the mind of the farmer. Mr Young once em- 

 ployed himself in ascertaining, by experiment, on two suc- 

 cessive crops of potatoes, estimated at 1 s. per bushel, what 

 was paid by increase of product, above the division that 

 had no manure, and the result was as follows : 



Bones per cubical yard of the manure, - L. 2 12 2 



Night-soil, 2 10 



Fat hog-dung, 017 4 



Common farm-yard compost, 098 



* Where a farm is divided into five breaks, pasturing the clover break 

 for one year, may be done to much advantage, as, after 'a year's rest, 

 less manure is necessary, and the produce of_straw will be more abundant 

 in the remainder of the course. 



