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to the nutrition of the crops over which they are fown. 

 The proportions in which they are ufcd to the acre over 

 the clover, and occafionally the wheat crops, are from fifty 

 to one hundred bu(hels. They are fuppofed to be very fer- 

 viceable to the two clover crops, and greatly beneficial to 

 the fuccceding wheat one, by fome perfons ; but others are 

 of quite the contrary opinion, thinking them of very little 

 ufe to the wheat, except by increafuig the quantity of the 

 clover. They are alfo ufeful in deilroyiiig niofs in the fur- 

 face of grafs lands. The)r are to be ktpt dry, and com- 

 monly fown over the crops in November or January in luild 

 moid weather. 



In Oxfordlhire, peat-afliC3 are made ufe of from about 

 twelve to forty bulhels upon the acre ; and thofe of coal 

 from fixteen to upwnrds of fifty. They are fown over the 

 wheat, clover, faintfoin, and turnip crops, the coal being 

 fomewhat the bell on the clovers, and the peat on the 

 turnips. 



In Berkfhire, peat-aflies are ufed very generally for moft 

 forts of crops, except wheat, barley; and peas, either fown 

 with the feeds and harrowed in together, or fown on the 

 land as a top-drefling, only ; but they are more preferred 

 for all forts of artificial grafs crops, and on natural meadow 

 and pafture grafles, as well as turnips. The quantities em- 

 ployed are from fifteen to twenty bufliels and upwards on 

 the acre. They are applied in March or April, feveral acres 

 being capable of being fown in the courfe of the day. They 

 only laft about a couple of years in the land. The afties of 

 bean Hubble are likewife found beneficial hereabouts, bring- 

 ing up white clover when put upon the grafs lands. 



Different forts of alhes have been found very ufeful on the 

 frafs lands in Suffex, at the rate of from twenty to thirty 

 bulhels on the acre, employed as a manure. 



In Effex coal-afhes are laid upon the clover, faintfoin, 

 and grafs crops to the quantity of fixty bulhcls on the 

 acre or more, with very great effects in promoting their in- 

 creafe. 



In the county of Hertford they manure for turnips and 

 fome other crops with rabbit and poultry dungs, at the rates 

 of from fifty to fixty bulhels or more on the acre, with good 

 fuccefs. And in fome part of the Oxford diftrift, pigeons' 

 dung is found an excellent manure when thrown over the 

 young barley crops, mixed with that of poultry. In Effex 

 too, it is found beneficial for promoting feed when fown 

 over the rape or cole crops in the proportion of eight bufhels 

 to the acre. 



There are feveral other articles which are occafionally 

 thrown over crops on the furface of the lands as a manure, 

 in this intention, fuch as thofe of the dull of malt, rape- 

 cake, bones, plailler of Paris, and fome others. Malt-duft 

 is made ufe of on wheat and barley in many parts of the 

 county of Oxford, and on the young wheats in Hertford- 

 {hire, in the quantity of five quarters to the acre. In 

 Berkfhire thirty bufhcls per acre. Rape-cake dull is alfo 

 ufed in the former of thefe laft counties on the wheats 

 with great fuccefs. Pounded bones are likewife greatly bene- 

 ficial when ftrewed over the grafs and fome other forts of 

 crops, being fometimes a very forcing manure, and at the 

 fame time lafting. The plailler of Paris has been ufed on 

 clover, fiintfoin, lucern, and other crops with immenfe 

 effeft, in fome parts of Oxfordfhire, fown over them about 

 March, to the quantity of fix bufliels per acre. But in 

 Suffex, in the proportion of eight bufhels to the acre, when 

 fown over natural grafs, bean, potatoe, pea, and barley 

 crops,, it had not the leafl good effeft. Nor even when 

 tried on other forts in the quantity of fix bufhels to the 

 fame extent of land. 



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Powdered oil-cake that has been fpoiled by keeping, u 

 an excellent application as manure in the above way. The 

 lame is alfo tlie cafe with chopped tanners' hair, which hat> 

 been found fupcrior in this ufe to either malt-dull or any 

 fort of calcareous matter. Horn-fhavings are likewife 

 very beneficial when laid on in this manner to graf« lands, 

 in the proportion of from fifty to one hundred bufhels to 

 the acre, lafting five or fix years, and being of very eafy car- 

 riage they fhould be employed in damp weather about 

 February or March. See Manure. 



All thefe different forts conftitute excellent quick forcing 

 manures, when applied in fome of thefe ways for fome of the 

 above purpofi's, and lliould be much more generally em- 

 ployed in futh methods than is at prefent the cafe. 



OaiCK Match, in Artillery, is formed of three cotton 

 ftrands drawn into length, and dipped in a boiling compofi- 

 tion of white wine vinegar, faltpetre, and mealed powder. 

 After this immerfion, it is taken out hot, and laid in a 

 trough where fome mealed powder, moiflened with fpirits 

 of wine, is thoroughly incorporated into the twills of the 

 cotton, by rolling it therein : thus prepared, they arc taken 

 out fcparately and drawn through mealed powder, and then 

 hung upon a line to dry. There is alfo quick match. made 

 of worlled inilead of cotton. For its ufe, fee Yivx-Shipt. 

 Quick nuitb Child, in Lain. See Rei'RIEve. 

 Quick Pulfe, in Medicine. See Pulse. 

 Quick Sand, in Sea Language, denotes a loofe quaking 

 fand, into which a fliip finks by her own weight, as foon as 

 the water retreats from her bottom. See Quicksand. 



Quick Thorn, in Agriculture, a name frequently applied 

 to young plants of the hawthorn or white-thorn kind, which 

 are fit for being planted out for the purpofe of forming a 

 hedge-fence. See Quicks, and Quickset. 

 It alfo iignifies this fort of thorn generally. 

 QUICKEN Tree, in Gardening, the common name of 

 a tree of the ornamental fruit kind. See SoRBUS. 



QUICKENING, in Midiuifery, the firfl perception 

 women have of the motion of the foetus. This ufually 

 happens in the third or fourth month of pregnancy. It 

 has puzzled phyfiologifls to explain why the motion of the 

 foetus fhould not be perceived earlier, as it is endowed with 

 life from the firfl moment of conception. But, befides that 

 the parts of the foetus are too foft and tender to affett the 

 uterus by its motion, the membranes enveloping it are too 

 thick, and there is then a proportionably larger quantity of 

 fluid in the ovum than afterwards, which keeps the embryo 

 from touching the fides of it. The uterus alfo during this 

 period is confined in the cavity of the pelvis, which being 

 of fmall capacity, and every way furrounded with bones, 

 leaves little room for the motion of the foetus. But as foon 

 as the uterus emerges into the cavity of the abdomen, it 

 readily yields to the motion of the inclofed foetus, and the 

 parts by which it is now furrounded being extremely deli- 

 cate and fenfible, they are affefted by the flighteil liirring 

 of it. In fome women of dehcate habits, the moment of 

 quickening is marked by a flight hylleric paroxyfm. In 

 thefe cafes it feems probable, that the uterus has flipped 

 fuddenly into the abdomen, but ordinarily it rifes flowly and 

 gradually, whence the ihock on the bowels is fo incon- 

 fiderable, as fcarcely to make any fenfible impreflion. See 

 Conception. 



QUICKING-Drac;, in Agriculture, a name fometimes 

 given in different diftricts to the couch and quitch drag. 

 See Drag. 



QUICKJOCK, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in 

 the Lapmark of Lutea; 15 miles N.W. of Lutea. N. lat. 

 Of 20'. E. long. in"^. 



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