8-1847J 



THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



^— [^N SALT AS .MANURE 



' * I have experienced 



to state what I have experienced 

 ^^rrea in reply to your inquiry respecting the 

 * d ^T'Ts * worVo? warning may just now be 

 •"■"S to check the spread of a dangerous though 

 *** Plants 9 common salt, except in very minute 



"* lively small, containing, I believe, no plants 



"(and that number might, with- 



i * r ^oubt. be very 'much diminished if the plants 



ftt^id^^E^f toe Shrubby Saltwort (Salsola 



]£*). a very elegant plant by the way, though its 



nous, growing this whole summer 



!__£ntlv in mv garden. It was brought a mere eut- 



HE SJSfly beach near Cley, 



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Ibesbort green turf common in maritime situations 



l eye like a specimen of very fine 



PtaUiM or Rib-gras.es, Yellow ladies' bed-straw 

 (Galium), the yellow Stonecrop (Sedum acre), which 

 mis on every sandy common in tin interior, an 1 the 



a places where the constant dripping of the rocks must 

 awe all saline particles. With these and others will 



r,v. ; in siiii.lv places, the Convolvolus Soldanella. 



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nfaced to eat it, and that it might be improved by t 



tained. About an acre was sown with salt. I feared 

 ":}.;. • cJs.W tl.» Grass should be utterly 



"drosty'in a day or two ; here and there a few 1 

 »"» 'aid ou the crown of a 

 ■■died. The stock did not eat the Grass the 

 "being salted, though they might occasionally 



56. wken it slowly resumed its former «|^ear 

 *«*W°ea 



i dressing of slacked ] 



the garden of a friend a crop of Pe 

 y a slight application of salt, and t 

 afterwards rendered unproducti 



JJt garden crops. 

 »abed of Seakaie this summer (1847) wlnle 



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<»tt^T ed * sick ^ llue » drooping on the ground, an 

 "» before the plants regained the: 



hki£ m T eaistance to the effects of salt is limitei 



of dew 



e of salt is an 

 t weeding, and certainly an efficacious 

 gs, grubs, &c. So far salt is indirectly 



ite as well with the usual highly 



* that can bear a - 



ave seen a field top-dressed with sai 



r e noted whether any flagging, like that 

 was observed after the application to the 



ilise with salt on their Wheat ; and it 



?round has been recommends 

 ■"•J but in the dil 



• has then so i 



J rather than positive. Bui 



. ■ 

 riispei-bed when spread ove 



'; 



er suppiy to plants thosi 

 ed by safe. 3. That gre 



Salt is absolutely necessary to the healthy growth 

 all cultivated crops, and it is essential to the healthy 

 condition of animal as well as vegetable life. ' ' 



shape. These hedge-rows and banks produced large ~^t water upon lime would be" I 

 woody fibre and leaves, trimmings of hedges and JJJJ 

 ditches, Cabbage stalks, in short any un.lt ■ 

 vegetable products can from time to time be i 



■ner. The marshes have M 

 application (except a few acn 



l.Y way of experiment;. Lot I 





ung from the cattle-yards a 



«:,siiH l.i^l.els l 



i 10 or 14 days. 



and it may then be stirred i 



its application, if deemed n< 



One of the best crops c 



salt to 20 of lime to 'the acr 

 dry before its application. 



bhortly before j (lentlyt: 

 ver grew (48 A^Zvw 



t a, andS°s will be spread upon toe 



'ts being carted upon the land. 



larg e q^j^^Xbe published as soon as possible ; 

 STtS bJi£ of it. evidence is decidedly in favour of 



HomTcorTOToSence^ for I 



SalL-l have tried agricultural salt as 



