- 23 



6 1 



18 



- 22 



18 



26 



- 18 



2 







- 13 



4 







tons. 



cwt. 





6 



15 





6 



11 





on Gardening and Rural Affairs. 341 



" The soil was sandy : and I abridge from this paper, read before the 

 Horticultural Society of London, in November, 1821, the following detail 

 of the result : 



" Windsor Beans. 



Produce in Bushels 

 Experiment. . per acre. 



1. Soil without any manure - - - - 135| 



2. Soil dressed with 20 bushels of salt per acre, week before 



seed time - 217 



" Onions. Tendered 



tons. cwt. qrs. lbs. 



1 . Soil manured with 20 bushels of salt and 10 tons of 



farm-yard manure - - - -312312 



2. Soil manured with 12 tons of farm-yard manure - 2 10 2 19 



" Carrots. Produce per acre* 



tons. cwt. qrs. lbs" 



1 . Soil manured with 80 bushels of salt and 20 tons of 



manure - - 



2. Soil, 20 tons manure only 



3. Soil manured with 20 bushels of salt only 



4. Soil without any manure 



" Parsnips. 



1. Yard manure 20 tons, salt 20 bushels 



2. Yard manure 20 tons 



" Early Potatoes. 

 Experiment. Produce per acre. 



bushels. 



1. Soil without any manure - - - 308 



2. Soil manured with 20 bushels of salt per acre - 584 



" Conclusion. — From the statements which I have now been enabled, 

 through the kindness of my friends, to lay before the farmer, he must agree 

 that the use of salt in agriculture, is of the highest importance : he must 

 acknowledge this, unless, indeed, he believes that all those who have tried 

 salt as a manure, were alike deceived. 



" That salt is alike beneficial to all kinds of land, and at all times, is an 

 assertion too absurd to need refutation, for such an universal property 

 belongs to no other manure: even chalk or lime will not suit all soils. 

 Stable manure may be employed without benefit. 



" When chalk is applied to some soils, years must elapse before its good 

 effects are visible to the farmer. ' And yet,' said the late eloquent Lord 

 Erskine, ' chalk, which has caused to start into life the most inert soils, is 

 just nothing as a manure, compared with salt.' 



" Now, let me ask, what would have been the fate of chalk as a manure, 

 had its early advocates decided upon its merits, without first employing that 

 patient spirit of investigation, so especially necessary in all agricultural 

 pursuits ? 



" Would chalk, otj. gypsum, or lime, or bone-dust, ever have been 

 generally employed as a manure, had their advocates been infected with a 

 spirit of impatience, and proud contempt of the experiments and rules of 

 those who went before them ? Chalk and gypsum had their opponents ; 

 they, too, had to encounter ignorance in all shapes ; but they triumphed at 

 last, and so will the advocates of salt. " 



France. 



Pontier, P. H., senior, Inspector of Woods and Waters : Memoir sur la 

 Connaissance des Terres en Agriculture. Paris. 8vo. \fr. 50c. 

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