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are a variety of articles which answer for this pur- 

 pose, of which Mr. Farey gives a detail, as used 

 in the vicinity of Dunstable, &c. 



1. Soot, from coals, is bought in London at 7d. 

 to 0d. per bushel, struck. The measure of London 

 soot is very deficient, viz. about four fifths of Win- 

 chester, which makes the price Qd. to lid. per 

 Winchester bushel, struck. It is brought from 

 London to the lands, and there deposited in a heap 

 (which is their practice also with the other light- 

 dressings), at 3d. per bushel. From these heaps a 

 common seed -scuttle is filled, and a man walking 

 the length of the lands, sows the soot in the same 

 manner as corn is sown. The expence of sowing 

 is a halfpenny per bushel. The quantity used per 

 statute acre, is from twenty to forty Winchester 

 bushels. In general, thirty bushels are used for a 

 complete dressing ; i. e. when dung, or some other 

 manure, has not been previously applied to the 

 same crop, which is very frequently their practice, 

 and the quantity of top-dressing is then diminished 

 to about one-half of a complete dressing. Of stfot, 

 a complete dressing as above, costs 30s. to 36s. per 

 acre. Soot is found to answer best on wheat in 

 April. It likewise succeeds on pease or clover, in 

 the same month, and has a good effect sown with 

 barley in the beginning of April, and harrowed in. 

 A slight dressing of soot is used at any time in the 

 spring, when grubs or worms appear to injure the 

 young corn. The worms frequently make great 

 havock here, by drawing the blades of young corn 



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