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cut liay, to the amount of just 6d. a week for cake, on a 

 pea stubble ; a pond in the field : it continued four or five 

 weeks, and turnips succeeded, which were the best on his 

 farm, and a very great crop. 



ASHES. 



Air. Salter, of Winborough, buys all the ashes he 

 can get, of the poor people wlio burn Jlag parings, and 

 the strength of them is very great on his heavy land j but 

 on dry sand he remarks that they do little good. 



Mr. Styleman, of Snettisham, has manured sainfoin 

 with coal-ashes ; 40 bushels per acre, and with great suc- 

 cess. 



SOOT. 



Mr. BiRCHAM, of Hackford, lays out from 70I. to 

 lool. a year in soot, sowing 20 bushels per acre on his 

 wheat, in March or April. 



MALT-DUST. 



Mr. Kerrich, of Harlesion, manures for turnips with 

 50 sacks of malt-dust per acre, at is. 6d. and gets finer 

 crops than with yard-dung. 



Mr. M. Hill uses this manure; 10 sacks per acre, at 

 3s. 6d. a sack. 



BUCK-WHEAT. 



Mr. Bevan has been in tlic pradice some years of 

 ploughing in buck-wheat when in full blossom, as a ma- 

 nuring for cole : the success to his satisfatSlion. 



Mr. Salter, has ploughed it in as manure, fixing a 



