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found to promote weeds more than other dressings. 

 It has great effect on thistles, which it is scattered 

 upon, causing them to wither, as if scorched ; but 

 they generally recover, unless the dust be repeated. 

 The occupiers of the chalk lands in this neigh- 

 bourhood are under considerable apprehensions for 

 the loss of the valuable peat manures, by the pro- 

 posed drainage of Prisles Moors, intelligence of 

 which has reached them already. 



5. Folding is used as a top-dressing, and on 

 these, as on most other soils, answers to good pur- 

 pose : it succeeds best on dry land. Its effect on 

 these light soils is not entirely attributed to the 

 sheep's dung, but in a great degree to the stiff- 

 ness the land acquires by the treading, which is 

 here found so very beneficial, that they frequently 

 lead the plough- horses a- breast up and down the 

 lands several times after sowing wheat, or other 

 grain, to tread it. 



MANURES TURNED IN. 



1 . Furriers' clippings, which are bought in Lon- 

 don at J2s. to 13s. per quarter (being a ten bushel- 

 sack crammed full) weighing about 1\ cwt. The 

 carriage to the land costs 3d. per quarter. They 

 are sown by hand from the seed -scuttle, at about 

 3d. per quarter, on the land intended to be sown 

 with wheat or barley, and immediately ploughed in, 

 after which the seed is sown and harrowed in, 

 when such pieces of the clippings as are left above 

 ground by the harrow, are pricked or shoved into 



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