CONTENTS. 



Quantities of grass, clover. Prefer- 

 ence by cattle to plaistered grass. Over 

 luxuriant-grass not approved of. — 

 zuith inanures, English opinion that 

 plaister and lime disagree — and that 

 it is best on Virgin soils denied. 

 Comparison of crops of grain here 

 and in England and Ireland; and 

 quality of zuheats. Sowing clover on 

 zvinter grain. Opinion of its produc- 

 ing mildexv^ erroneous. Duration. 

 Weeds ; observations on them. Dung 

 should be rotted or composted to de- 

 stroy their seeds. Stercoraries ; mi- 

 serably mismanaged. Fences : hedge- 

 rows — merit of one who would bota- 

 nize with a viev/ to destroy zueeds. SU 

 jfo/ms wort, ranstcdor toad-jiax, Eu- 

 ropean and American plaister equnl 

 in quality. Miscellaneous obser- 

 vations. Prejudices against the use 

 of plaister here, and in Germany, Un- 

 certainties and intermissions of its 

 1^ effects, accounted for. — Retentive of 



moisture. Dew remains on plaister- 

 ed, longer than on other grounds. 

 Richard Peters, page 88. Plaister attracts and retains mois- 

 ture, Ingenhausz — his opinion o«i 

 water; as it feeds or convGys food to 

 plants — ChaptaPs ideas. Grinding 

 plaister; — and most profitable num- 

 ber of bushels to the ton. 89. Calci- 

 nation injures j^laister. Analysis, — 

 Mode of trying quality, 90, a the- 

 ory of plaister,- might be suppressed. 



