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statute acre. Woollen rags, like furriers' clippings, 

 hold moisture, and are adapted for dry, gravelly, 

 and chalk soils, and succeed in dry seasons better 

 than most manures, but they do little good on wet 

 soils. London rags are found much better than 

 those collected in the country ; but the danger of 

 catching the small -pox in chopping and sowing 

 them, deters many farmers from their use. 



4. Sheep's -trotters and Fellmongers* cuttings, are 

 bought of the neighbouring fellmongers at about 

 6d. per bushel, heaped loose : carriage to the land 

 is about 2^d. per bushel. They are used in the 

 same way as furriers' clippings, from 20 to 4O 

 bushels per acre, and need pricking in, as dogs and 

 crows are very fond of them. They do not answer 

 on wet land, or in very dry seasons: indeed no- 

 thing does succeed in excessive dry seasons on these 

 soils. The trotters contain a considerable quantity 

 of lime, and are often adulterated with sand, and 

 sometimes large quantities of oak saw-dust are 

 mixed with them, which has been found not to 

 injure them. 



5. Malt-dust costs at the neighbouring malt- 

 houses Is. per bushel heaped, and about a half- 

 penny per bushel carriage to the land. It is sown 

 by hand, from 24 to 32 bushels per acre, at the 

 same time with barley, and harrowed in with the 

 seed. It suits most soils and seasons. Malt-dust 

 quickly spends itself, and is therefore never sown 

 with wheat : as a top-dressing to wheat in March, 

 about 3O bushels per acre, it probably would suc- 

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