196 Mr. Speedily on the 



(No. 2.) Soot very little inferior to No. 1. 



(No. 3.) The compost of sheeps' dung, &c. proved only about equal to rotten 

 stable manure (No, 4), and did not exceed it, as I was in expectation it would 

 have done. 



Their produce appeared in the following proportions, above the average of the 



crop where not any top-dressing were applied: 



Qrs. Bus. 



No. 1. Dove manure - 1 



XT o fper ac^'S -06 



No. 2. Soot - - J ^ 



No. 3. Compost of sheeps' dung, &c. ] 



XT T. ui J f pel" acre -03 



No. 4. Rotten stable yard manure J 



As the various portions of corn, where the top dressings were applied, would have 



required much barn room to have been separately kept ; as it would also have been 



both troublesome and expensive in threshing and dressing up each by itself, and after 



all very subject to error by the respective labourers employed ; I thought it therefore 



best by endeavouring to form a judgment of each from its bulk and quality when cut, 



and by afterwards coming to the knowledge of the produce of the general crop 



(after having been threshed,) where not any top-dressings were applied, I trust that I 



could not have erred much by estimating from their various comparative differences. 



Experiment II. 



On the 22d and 23d of April, 1805, ^ <^^os,t (called West Feld Close) con- 

 taining four acres, was sown with spring wheat on turnip fallow, the soil a deep 

 loam, and in a high state of cultivation. 



sunilar to that of fermented liquors) ; therefore, when the dove cot is cleaned out, the pigeon 

 dung should be well moistened with water, and laid in an heap in a close and dry place, to coucb. 

 In the course of a few days a strong heat is generally brought on, which when obtained, ihe out- 

 side of the heap should be again watered, and the whole turned over. In this turning caie should 

 be had to put the outside of the former into the middle of the second heap, to give uniformity to 

 the whole. 



In small dove cots, where the quantity of pigeons dung may be insufficient to bring on a fer- 

 mentation, it may readily be acquired by the aid of a little fresh dung from the stable. 



On a layer of stable dung, of about two feet in thickness, the pigeons dung should be put in an 

 heap. Then if a competent quantity of, dung be laid over the heap, it will speedily bring on a 

 fermentation. 



