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the desired effect, and I am inclined to think there is 

 little or no difference. 



Query 12. Its duration ? 



Answer, With me it has not been uniform. Whether 

 it depends on the quantity put on, the nature of the soil, 

 the difference in seasons, or the goodness of the plaister, 

 I cannot say ; but it will sometimes fail the second 

 year ; sometimes it will last four or five, and where it 

 has been put on the hills of Indian corn, and afterwards 

 mixed with the soil by ploughing, I have known its ef- 

 fects visible for six years, and continue the same length 

 of time on an exhausted soil never manured. 



It is no small addition to the value of plaister, that 

 the grass lands on which it has been spread, are not 

 near so much injured by drought as others, and that 

 cattle love to pasture on them better. 



The expence of raising red clover with plaister and 

 a small quantity of dung, and raising it with dung alone 

 (if bought at the common prices) may I think be esti- 

 mated as one to five. 



I am, Sir, your's sincerely, 



John Curwen. 



