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cheap to make with meadow mud, a far cheaper man- 

 ure than such as is in general used among our farmers. 

 The experiment satisfies me that nothing better than 

 potash and peat, can be used for most if not all our 

 cultivated vegetables, and the economy of watering 

 with a solution of geine, such as are cultivated in 

 rows I think cannot be doubted. The reason why 

 the corn was not very obviously benefitted, I think, 

 must have been that the portion of the roots to which 

 it was applied, was already fully supplied with nu- 

 triment out of the same kind from the peat ashes and 

 manure put in the hill at planting. For watering 

 rows of onions or other vegetables, I should recom- 

 mend that a cask be mounted on light wheels, so set 

 that like the drill they may run each side of the row 

 and drop the liquid manure through a small tap hole 

 or tube from the cask, directly upon the young plants. 

 For preparing the liquor, 1 should recommend a cis- 

 tern about three feet deep and as large as the object 

 may require, formed of plnnk and laid on a bed of 

 clay and surrounded by the same, in the manner that 

 tan vats are constructed ; this should occupy a warm 

 place, exposed to the sun, near water, and as near as 

 these requisites permit to the tillage lands of the farm. 

 In such a cistern, in warm weather, a solution of geine 

 may be made in large quantities with little labor and 

 without the expense of fuel, as the heat of the sun, is, 

 I think, amply sufficient for the purpose.* If from 

 further experiments it should be found economical 



* Perhaps in an excavation in a peat meadow, which would fill with water spon- 

 taneously, a solution of geine might be still mora cheaply obtained, by »imply ad* 

 ding potash, ashes, &c. to the stagnant water. 



