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Mr. Thomas Russell, of Bean, near 

 Gravesend, used to use four or five cwts. 

 fish meal per acre for his fruit plantations. 



The Duke of Bedford and Mr. Spencer 

 Pickering, F.R.S., found fish guano for 

 gooseberries, black currants and rasp- 

 berries better than the manurial equiva- 

 lent in superphosphate, sulphate of pot- 

 ash, sulphate of magnesia mixed together 

 and nitrate of soda applied separately. 



Mr. George Hammond, of Pilgrim's 



Hatch, Brentford, Essex, likes to put 

 about eight cwts. hoof, horn and bone 

 meal on his fruit plantations in March, 

 or early in April. 



Mr. James Allen, of Stanhill, Wilming- 

 ton, used to apply fish salt as a manure 

 for raspberries, the fish scale, bone and 

 roe supplying nitrogen and phosphate of 

 lime, whilst the salt increased the mois- 

 ture in the soil, absorbing it from the 

 dew. 



