4l8 OIL-CAKE. 



nefit there reckoned exceedingly great, but lasting only 

 one crop. 



At that period, from Holkham to Holt they spread one 

 ton three-quarters to three acres ; bringing it from Hol- 

 land and Ireland, but they found the Dutch cakes best, 

 from not being pressed so much. It lasted strongly only 

 for one crop, wheat; but of some use to tlie following 

 turnips. 



In 1784 I found Mr. Coke in the regular pradlice of 

 using this manure, at 5I. per ton. He found it more forc- 

 ing to a crop of wheat than cither dung or fold ; but the 

 turnips after the wheat not so good as after dung spread 

 for that crop. 



At present (1803) it is 81. los. per ton, gnd he drills ia 

 with the turnip. seed a ton to six acres ; and though when 

 "used in lumps, it may be better to sow it six weeks before 

 the seed, yet, in his estiination, this is not the case when 

 reduced thus to a powder. 



In the distri(fl of Holkham rape-cake is very generaliv, 

 perhaps I might say universally, used. They now- 

 spread a ton on three or four acres, usually sowing it 

 (about eleven or twelve bushels to the acre) for wheat or 

 turnips, or for both. Mr. Overman has compared 

 English, Dutch, and Irish cake ; the latter he thinks the 

 worst, and suspedls from its breaking of a black grain, as 

 ■well as from its want of that agreeable scent yielded by 

 other cakes ; that it has undergone in the manufaflure 

 some operation by fire. This manure is very efFeflivc. 



The expense rising so high, induced Mr. Coke, some 

 time ago, to recommend to Mr. Cook, the patentee of 

 the drill-plough, to add to that machine an apparatus for 

 sov/ing rape-eake-dust with turnip-seed ; but his various 

 engagements preventing the necessary attention, Mr.. 



Coke 



