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ting the desiccation, or by forming a chemical compound, as phosphate of fime, 

 so important to the growth of wheat. 



102 Sir Humphry Davy's Lectures, p. 257. M. Cazeneuve, from Paris, by 

 means of his " mobiles inodores," proposes to separate the urine from the night 

 soil, which would prevent the foetid effluvium produced by fermentation. This 

 would render the use of such manures less objectionable. 



193 Hints on the Agricultural State of the Netherlands, p. 63. 



194 If bones or sea-shells are properly sprinkled with putrid urine, it excites 

 such a fermentation, as to dissolve them, and thus a manure is formed, much 

 more valuable, and more speedily efficacious. 



195 Communication from John Middleton, Esq. 



196 Curwen's Report, p. 61. 



197 Sir Humphry Davy's Lectures, p. 251. 198 Ibid. p. 251. 



199 The effects of woollen and leather rags on chalky soils, are said to be 

 peculiarly striking. 



200 Ten bushels of old feathers, have added two quarters to the produce of 

 an acre of wheat. Lincolnshire Report, p. 143. 



201 Sprats are frequently applied as manure to the hop gardens, along the 

 borders of the river Medway in Kent ; and they produce great effects, though 

 only for one year. Communication from John Middleton, Esq. See Report 

 of Cornwall, as to the effect of fish on grass lands. In the county of Galway, 

 in Ireland, fish manure has been found highly advantageous. In Scotland, 

 it is calculated, that fourteen barrels of herrings, will yield one barrel of re- 

 fuse, or garbage, two barrels of which will be a single horse cart load. Six- 

 teen load of this manure, the produce of eighty -four barrels of herrings, when 

 mixed with forty-eight loads of earth, will manure an acre of land. If 300,000 

 barrels of herrings, therefore, are caught in Scotland in one year, the garbage 

 would be sufficient to manure about 3600 acres of land per annum. Commu- 

 nication from William Young, Esq. of Inverugie. 



202 The use of oil, in vegetation also, is very great. When the cuttings of 

 gooseberries are planted, it should be done in a lump of clay mixed with cow- 

 dung, and a few drops of train oil; and^ when young thorns are planted in u 

 poor or sandy soil, they will thrive better, if their roots are dipped in oil. Near 

 the first turnpike going to Milend, there is an artificial manure sold, supposed 

 to be the sweepings of the drysalters in Thames Street, mixed with the refuse of 

 those places where the blubber of whales is boiled, one bushel of which, it is 

 said, is equal to twenty-eight of common manure. 



203 Northumberland Report, p. 134. 



204 Husbandry of Scotland, vol. i. p. 1 70. Even the cover of limestone 

 quarries has been usefully applied to heath, to rough stunted grass lands, and 

 to meadow grounds. 



205 Westmoreland Report, p. 235. Lime is supposed not to increase the 

 quantity of grass, though it improves its quality. It certainly renders the her- 

 bage more nutritious, whether as hay or pasture, and preserves the stock, sheep 

 in particular, from some disorders. 



206 Northumberland Report, p. 131. 



207 Somerset Report, p. 512. 



208 Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 38, 401, &c. 



209 Herefordshire Report, p. 57. 



210 Husbandry of Scotland, vol. i. p. 170. 



211 Husbandry of Scotland, vol. i. p. 186. Lime has been successfully em- 

 ployed in the south of Scotland, to destroy the texture of that moorish subsoil, 

 which is so unfavourable to vegetation. 



212 Remark by Edward Burroughs, Esq. 



213 From inattention to this rule, much money has been uselessly expended, 

 and many have been led to doubt the efficacy of lime, because they employed a sort 

 of inferior quality. 



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