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I7th. — No damase has been sufFeied. • 



lath. — Nono o'her than ve<.re.iable or putrosri'ni 

 manures have been used ; no doubt exisis wiili 

 me that ihey are f.ir more durable on marled 

 land. 



19//i. — The former average product in corn sup- 

 posed to have been (torn six to eLWit bushels!. 



20tk. — I suppose on the marled l.md about 20 

 bushels, without addiiiona! improvement by 

 oilier manure. 



21st. — I have never made wheat as a crop — corn, 

 oats, peas and coiinn have been my usual 

 crops — and (or the last several years I have 

 macie no cotton. The pici<in<i out I found to 

 interfere vviih my marline: opgraiions. 



22d. — The same answer as civen to the 15iii que- 

 ry will apply to this, but I have no hesitation in 

 SHvinii; that the. annual jjross product will iioi 

 IhII short of 50 per cent, over and above its pro- 

 duct previous to marlinir. 



23«/. — So far as my experience coes, it tends to 

 confirm the theoretical opinions of the 'Essay 

 on Calcareous Manures.' 



IV. jinswers of W. C. Jones, of Surry county. 



Answer to 1st query. — The use of marl as a ma- 

 nure was commenced on my larm by myself in 

 1836, but an experiment had been, made by my 

 liiiher on about three acres, many years airo, 

 perhaps twenty years or mote. It is obvious 

 that this piece of land was dressed very heavily 

 with marl, probably with 1200 or 1500 bushels 

 to the acre, as only a part of ii, eo late as 18."M, 

 would produce any thin^ at all, the remainder 

 being rendered sierile by the immense dose. 

 Now, however, these three acres, without ever 

 having received the least aid from either ani- 

 mal, vegetable or mineral manure (but after 

 having been plou'jhed very deep) will produce 

 at least a third more than the surrounding land, 

 which was marled in 1839 at the rate ol 250 

 bushels per acre. 



2cf— Since 1834 the farm has been solely under 

 my management. 



5th. — The rate oi' progress in pxtendiui? the marl- 

 ing has beeii irretjular, as no separate force was 

 allotted lor the business, it being only done at 

 leisure times, after finishing the crop. Up to 

 this time there have been 210 acres marled. 



6th. — The marl used would average perhaps 65 

 per centum of carbonate of lime. 



lih. — None of the marl used previous to 1840 

 contained any green-sand ; but since that litne 

 the blue marl has been used exclusively, which 

 has enough green-sand in it to give it the ap- 

 pearance of being tinged with blue alter being 

 carted in the field previous to spreading it. I 

 am unable to say, however, what per cent, ol 

 green-sand is in it, or what eflTect it will have, 

 as no land has been cultivated as yet on which 

 that marl was put. 



8th. — There was nothing in the marl to lessen its 

 value as a manure, neither stony hardness ol 

 shells or masses of marl. 



9th.— From 150 to 250 bushels per acre — accord- 

 ing to the quality of the marl used, and the 

 Etrength ot' the land marled. 



10<A end Wth. — No heavier or lighter dressings, 

 except what was mentioned in the first answer. 



I2th.—Tbe cropping and general management of 

 the land (or a lew years, or, in (act, many years 

 previous lo its being marled, was not such as 

 could be considered meliorating or improving, 

 but, on the contrary, extremely impoverishing 

 and wasting of its (eriiliiy. 



13th. — The tinee-shifi S36tem has been practised 

 since marlinir, and no grazing allowed, except 

 the gleaning ol' the field by my hogs after har- 

 ves'. 



14</i. — The u-ual and general results of the ap- 

 plications of marl have been encouraging and 

 liFghly satisfactory — an increase of the crop 

 next (bllowing from 50 to 60 per cent, on the 

 light soils, and on the whortleberry and " poco- 

 son" lands perhaps more than 100 ; and to the 

 present time the increase has been gradual, but 

 (ar more rapid on the " pocoson" land, which 

 was nurled and manured at the same time, and 

 now will protluce four or five times as much as 

 it did helbie :t was marled. 



15th.— The earliest eti'ects of marl have been 

 siibsequ'^nily increasing, and have not been 

 djmiiiisheil by the lapse of time. 



16th. — I do not think that the early increased pro- 

 duct of niv marled land will be hereafter les- 

 sened under any rotation of crops or course of 

 cultivation, that would not be decidedly ex- 

 hausting and injurious to the land, if marl had 

 not been applied. 



17th.— I am decidedly of the opinion that ehher 

 the vegetable cover of the land or other putres- 

 cent manures are a great deal more efficacious 

 and durable on marled land than unmarled land. 



23d. — No p'aclical coniradiiMion known to your 

 views of the action of calcareous manures. 



THE HONEST AND BENEFICIAL CREDIT SYS- 

 TEM CONTRASTED WITH THAT AVHICH 

 CHEATS AND ROBS THE COUNTRY. 



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Smith.— Bid you see an account in the papers, 

 the other day, of a newly invented instrument ot 

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