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No. VII. 

 Experiments made at the Request of the Board. By Mr. John Wright. 



My Lord Pickworth near Stamford, Dec. i&, 1805. 



1 II E following is an account of the experiments entrusted to my care, by the 

 Board of Agriculture, for last year. 



Experiment I. 



Conclusion of the Experiment on the comparative Value of Manures— fourth Tear 

 Oats', after Clover on one Ploughing. 



Feb. 26, 1805, ploughed the clover ley for oats; March 7, sowed and harrowed 

 the four half roods, with 2^ pecks each. 



August 14, mowed and gathered into sheaves, and on the 24th threshed, on a 

 large cloth in the field. 



PRODUCE. 



Bush. Pecks. Bush. Pecks. j[. s. d. 



No. 1. Fresh stable dung 4 3 Per acre 38 o Value at 245. - 5 14 o 



No, 2. Rotten ditto .50 • 40 o • 600 



No. 3. Eurnt straw - 4 3 ■ 38 O ■ 5 14 o 



No. 4, Without - 40 32 o 4 16 o 



The half rood without manure, producing after the rate of four quarters per acre, 



rather surprised me, and shews the fertility of the manures to be greatly abated j 



which, however, on this light soil, is no more than what might be expected. 



Recapitulation. 



Value of the Crops for four Tears. 



£■ s. d. 

 No. 1. Fresh stable dung, first year turnips, per acre - 300 



second ditto barley, at 365. per quarter 617 3 



third ditto clover, - - 1100 



fourth ditto oats, at 245. - 5140 



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