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tity of vegetable matter which such soils may already 

 ^contain. 



The most efficacious method of applying peat to poor 

 barren soils, is to mix it with the urine and dung of 

 cattle; on failure of these articles, with alkaline and 

 other salts ; and, lastly, with lime. 



Experience can only determine the number of loads 

 or weight of these different preparations, which should 

 be given to an acre of ground. From such experiments 

 as have already been made with the preparation of alka- 

 line and some other salts, there is reason to believe that 

 the quantity necessary to be given at one time would not 

 exceed that of a proper dunging, and that equally bene- 

 ficial effects would be produced. 



If this, on general experience, should be proved, the 

 peat mosses in Great Britain and Ireland will not only af- 

 ford an inexhaustible supply of manure for the poor 

 lands in their vicinity, but may themselves, by the 

 application of alkaline and other salts, be brought to the 

 highest state of fertility. 



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