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winter or spring. They are never used on wheat, 

 In very dry seasons coal-ashes do little good; they, 

 as well as most other of these dressings on light 

 land, require rain after being sown, to set them to 

 work*. 



- 3. Peat-ashes, brought from the neighbour- 

 hood of Flitvvick on asses, are delivered on the, 

 land at 4^d. per bushel, struck ; being distributed 

 in the same way, and at the same expence as the 

 last article. Forty bushels per acre is a complete 

 dressing, and costs about 1&>. Peat-ashes succeed 

 well, used at the same time, and on the same crops 

 as the last article, except that they apply it on 

 wheat in April, with good effect. Peat -ashes 

 greatly improve dry chalk soils, but will do little 

 good on wet land, or cold sward, or on hot sandy 

 lands. This, like most other of their dressings, is 

 little affected by the season, provided wet falls soon 

 after it is laid on the land. 



4. Peat-dust costs the same as the ashes, and is 

 sowed in the same manner and quantities. It an- 

 swers equally well, and in every way the same as 

 the ashes. Peat-dust is esteemed the best possible 

 dressing for an onion-bed in a garden, and is not 



* In 1790, Mr. Dann procured from London the finely- sifted 

 coal-ashes , which are sold there, and spread them, 45 bushels per 

 acre, on clover and sainfoin, and the benefit was very trifling ; 

 but the ashes from Chatham Barracks (not kept undercover), 

 an4,not finely sifted, have improved those crops to the amount of a 

 load of hay superiority per acre. " The cinder, therefore/' says 

 Mr. Dann, " is better thai* the ask." 



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