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172 This liquid might likewise be conveyed in water-carts to the fields, and 

 applied by means of a gardener's watering pot, to fresh planted cabbages, or sa- 

 voys, and on some occasions to the potatoe-crop, or to meadow land. This is 

 constantly practised by several intelligent farmers. Communication from John 

 Middleton, Esq. 



173 Marshall on Landed Property, p. 168. This author recommends, that 

 the reservoir should be furnished from time to time, with a flooring of good 

 mould, to absorb the sediment which the liquor will let fall. See also an account 

 of a tank at Bradby Park, Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 454. 



174 Young on Manures, p. 158. 



175 Middlesex Report, p. 300. 



176 Mr Roberts of King's Walden, would always carry stable dung, long 

 and fresh, to the land ; but he thinks that farm-yard manure should be turned 

 up once, yet not kept too long. See Young's Essay on Manures, p. 146. Mr 

 Wilkes also speaks of dung taken from the stable-yard. Ditto, p. 148. An 

 intelligent farmer recommends half-rotted litter. 



177 This was the plan of that distinguished agriculturist, Mr Curwen, of 

 Workington Hall in Cumberland, whose farm produces, on an average, 10,500 

 single-horse carts of manure per annum. Such a quantity of dung could not 

 be managed on any other system. 



178 Blaikie on Farm-yard Manure, p. 13. 



179 Blaikie on Farm-yard Manure, p. 15; where the process is more mi- 

 nutely described. The dung thus prepared, gets into a fine condition, being 

 at once heavy, short, and mellow. Dr Rigby's Report, p. 56. By this im- 

 proved method of preparing dung, Mr Coke has saved L.500 per annum in 

 the price of oil-cakes, and his crops of turnips are good, if not better, than be- 

 fore. 



180 When used in this way for turnips, the dung should be made as moist 

 as possible, to promote a rapid vegetation. In cultivating carrots and pars- 

 nips, the dung ought to be thoroughly reduced, and placed deep in the ground, 

 so that the roots shall not reach it, otherwise they become forked, or divide. 



181 Brown's Treatise on Rural Affairs, vol. ii. p. 384. 



182 General Report of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 518. 



183 This is particularly necessary, when applied to a crop of barley, the 

 ripening of which, ought as much as possible to be simultaneous. 



184 It maybe proper to add in a note, that a zealous friend to agriculture, 

 (John Fane, Esq. Member for Oxfordshire), manures about 26 acres yearly, 

 with the dung of rabbits, kept solely for that purpose. The skins and carcas- 

 ses pay the expense, and the manure is all clear profit. Oxfordshire Report, 

 p. 316. But the plan could not be carried to any great extent, as there would 

 not be a market for the carcasses. 



185 This plan is particularly described in the General Report of Scotland, 

 vol. ii. p. 511, on the authority of Mr Hunter of Tynefield. 



186 Sir Humphry Davy's Lectures, p. 259. 



187 The city of Aberdeen, containing about 30,000 inhabitants, lets its dung 

 for L. 1500 per annum, or Is. per head. At that low rate, the whole city of 

 London ought to receive above L. 30,000 per annum for its street dung. The 

 street dung alone of Edinburgh, was lately let for L.2000 per annum. In. 

 Derbyshire, particular attention is paid to town dung. Report, vol. ii. p. 453. 



188 Middlesex Report, p. 301. 



189 Young's Essay on Manures, p. 168. 



190 Middlesex Report, p. 301, note. 



1 91 Sir Humphry Davy's Lectures, p. 255. This manure is made into cakes, 

 at Paris, under the name of poudrets, and is found of the utmost advantage, 

 particularly on strong lands. Mr Joseph Clarke of Goswell Street prepares 

 an article somewhat similar in London. It appears highly probable, that much 

 advantage might be derived from the addition of quick lime, both by accelera- 



