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the erection of bono-mills at Albany, Waterford, 

 New-York, Boston, and other places, and is likely 

 to come into more extensive use as its value is bet- 

 ter appreciated, we propose to give some account 

 of its fertilizing properties, of the soils and crops 

 which it is calculated most to benefit, of its mode of 

 application, the quantity that should be applied to 

 the acre, &c. In doing this, we shall draw our facts 

 principally from the report of the committee of the 

 Doncaster Agricultural Association a society which 

 has rendered eminent service to the agricultural 

 community, in different departments of husbandry, 

 by its investigations and reports. 



With a view of collecting facts to form the basis 

 of their report, the committee addressed seventeen 

 queries to the most intelligent farmers of the coun- 

 try, embracing men of science, and asking answers 

 to their interrogatories in regard to this manure. 

 Forty-nine answers were returned. From these ihe 

 committee made out their report ; and it is the sub- 

 stance of this report we are about to give. 



Bone manure had been used by those to whom 

 the queries were addressed for an average period 

 of twenty years. " Our . correspondents," says the 

 report, " with only two exceptions, all concur in 

 stating it to be a higlty valuable manure, and on 

 light, dry soils, superior to farmyard dung and all 

 other manures." In copying the language of one 

 of them in relation to dry, sandy soils, we express 

 the opinions repeated by the far greater number. 

 " I consider bone for tillage one of the most useful 

 manures which has ever been discovered for the 

 farmer's benefit. The lightness of carriage, its suit- 

 ableness for the drill, and its general fertilizing prop- 

 erties, render it peculiarly valuable in those parts 

 where distance from towns makes it impossible to 

 procure manure of a heavier and more bulky de- 

 scription. The use of the bones diminishes labour 

 at a season of the year, too, when time is of the first 



