40 NOTES. 



the province of Friuli, in the Venetian territories, began to use peat by way of 

 compost. Professor Symmonds's Account of the Agriculture of Italy, Annals of 

 Agriculture, vol. iii. p. 25. 



274 Lord Meadowbank likewise tried the mixture of animal matter, as fish- 

 refuse, whale-blubber, &c. with much success. It is evident, that peat would 

 be an excellent substance in a compost heap, intended for sandy or chalky soils, 

 as it would not only add to them a portion of vegetable matter, but would ma- 

 terially assist in giving them a deeper shade when blended with the soil. 

 Remark by Edward Burroughs, Esq. 



275 Westmoreland Report, p. 324. 



276 General Report of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 558. 



277 Ibid. vol. ii. p. 551. 



278 Remark by the Rev. Robert Hoblyn. 



279 The late Dr Fordyce drew up a plan for that purpose, which will be 

 found in the General Report of Scotland, Appendix, vol ii. p. 124. It may 

 be proper here to remark, that Mr Grisenthwaite, an ingenious chemist, of 

 Wells in Norfolk, undertook to discuss the subject of specific manures. The 

 theory has taken its rise from the analysis of clover, sainfoin, &c. and the ad- 

 vantage of gypsum to those crops. It is inferred, that by analysis, other spe- 

 cific manures may be applied to other crops. Thus, wheat yields, by analysis, 

 phosphate of lime > and a peculiar substance called gluten, of which nitrogen is 

 a constituent. Hence urine, (by folding, for instance), and bone manure, in 

 powder, are found highly useful. How much farther the science will advance, 

 is uncertain. 



280 Suffolk Report, p. 182. 



281 Dr Rennie, who has paid peculiar and successful attention to the sub- 

 ject of peat-mosses, considers those which are highly bituminated and pyritous, 

 also ferruginous soils, with a yellow or red tinge, as unfit for the operations of 

 paring and burning ; but these form merely exceptions to a general rule. 



282 Middlesex Report, p. 294, note; Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 401, 

 and 403. The necessity of continuing the paring and burning system, on a 

 fenny soil, is confirmed by the experience of the fenny districts. 



283 Middlesex Report, p. 294, note. 284 Ditto, p. 295, note. 



285 Middlesex Report, p. 296. Mr Simpson's experiments, (North Riding 

 Report, p. 207), are decisive upon this point. 



286 Boys's Treatise on Paring and Burning, annexed to the Kent Report, 

 second edition, p. 272. 



287 Communication from John Middleton, Esq. 



288 North Riding Report, p. 228 See another instance in the Lincoln 

 Report, p. 292. 



289 Northumberland Report, p. 126. 



290 Sir Humphry Davy's Lectures, p. 307. 



291 Young's Essay on Manures, p. 131. 



292 Sir Humphry Davy's Lectures, p. 305. Middlesex Report, p. 299. 

 See also Kent Report, p. 291. 



293 In many parts of England, paring and burning is called Denshiring, 

 said to be a corruption of Devonshiring, in allusion to the early and very ge- 

 neral practice of it in that district. 



294 Marshall's West of England, vol. i. p. 151. A more enlightened 

 system of husbandry seems now to be gaining ground in these two counties ; 

 and the soil is expected to yield its fair produce, without the compulsive sacri- 

 fice of its most valuable materials to avarice, or to ignorance. Remarks by the 

 Rev. Robert Hoblyn. 



295 Remark by Edward Burroughs, Esq. 



296 Young's Calendar, p. 622. 



297 Boys's Treatise in the Kent Report, p. 54. 

 i.'98 Boys's Treatise in the Kent Report, p. 258. 



