5O JANUARY, 



TOWN MANURES. 



It is not Very easy to give advice to a young far- 

 mer touching this article, because experiments for 

 ascertaining the value of these manures have been 

 few, and not varied sufficiently to afford adequate 

 information. I was largely in the practice myself, 

 very early in life, when they were much cheaper 

 than they are at present, and left it off from an 

 idea (but not founded on experiment), that it did 

 not answer, induced very much by the cheap price 

 at which I could then buy straw. Several farmers 

 with whom I have conversed on the subject, have 

 been of opinion that it answers when the horses 

 have nothing else to do ; but that it will not an- 

 swer at any other time; that for back carriage it an- 

 swers, but not otherwise. This confines the object 

 so much, that it becomes no longer a matter of 

 great consequence. The grand question is, will 

 it answer to set up a team for that purpose only, 

 and to keep it the whole year at work, upon the 

 tame principle that teams are thus set up and em- 

 ployed in marl-carting ? This is an object for 

 the young farmer to calculate ; and the mode of 

 doing k is this, supposing three one-horse carts 

 employed : 



Price of three carts and harness, .42 O O 



Price of three hordes, . . go O 



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