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effect of their droppings may be kept up continually. 

 I have continued the application of plaister every year 

 from my first using of it to the present, and its most 

 beneficial use is on grass, if rightly managed on the 

 previous dressing of other manure and its preparation ; 

 all which will require a system in itself to describe 

 at large. 



Qiieri/ 3. What quantity per acre have you general- 

 ly used? 



Answer, The quantity of plaister per acre, four and 

 a half bushels, the redressing about three bushels ; but 

 I would not recommend a second application when 

 land has been mowed five or six years, without a light 

 dressing of other manure. 



Query 4. What soils are the most proper for this 

 manure ? 



Answer. The soils most proper for the plaister are 

 warm, kind loamy ones ; land that is generaly deemed 

 good wheat land ; that will sink the water quick in 

 winter, not too level, and land moderately hilly. Land 

 that takes lime well, will the plaister. 



Query S. Have you repeated the application of it 

 with or without ploughing ? — at what intervals, and 

 with what effect? 



Answer, The repeated application of it has a good 

 effect, as I have mentioned above. It follows lime equal 

 to anv manure. 



Qiiery 6. In consequence do you find that it renders 

 the earth sterile after its useful effects are gone ? 



Answer, It does create something of sterility in five 

 or six years by mowing ; then it may, as above men- 

 tioned, be lightly dressed by dung or compost ; about 



