20 On Plaister of Paris. 



twelve loads to the acre, will make a new footing for 

 the plaister. This quantity will promote a wheat crop. 



Query 7. To what products can it be best applied ? 

 grain and what kinds? grasses and what kinds? 



Ansxver, It is best adapted to grass and every kind 

 of summer grain. 



Query 8. When is the best time to scatter it ? 



Aitswer. The time to strew it is in the spring, when 

 vegetation is fairly abroad. 



Query 9. What is the greatest product per acre of 

 grass, Sec. you have known by the means of plaister? 



Afisiuer. Respecting the quantity of grass per acre, I 

 have answered above. 



Query 10. Have you ever used it with other manure, 

 and what ? — and the effects if any superior to the plais- 

 ter alone ? 



Query 11. Is there any diiference between the Euro- 

 pean and American plaister ? 



Answer 10 a?id II, I answer in one: have never used 

 it with other manure ; thought inexpedient.^ 



As to its durability, the product for live years, mowed 

 twice each year, and the third plaistcred, will I believe 

 be more than can be produced from dung, without re- 

 striction of quantity. 



*_I am sorry I have not had the pleasure of a conversation 

 with Mr. West since he was so obHging as to communicate 

 his answers. I was obscure in stating to him the 10th query. 

 I meant not a mixture of the gyps with the dung, and a cotem- 

 poraneous application. He has in his answer to the 6th query 

 met my ideas on the subject. 



R. P. 



