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7 the artificial manures being placed in smaller holes 
of Jess depth. On one estate the plan seems to have suc- 
ceedel of placing a large quantity of pulp (5 baskets) in 
holes cut in a space between every four trees, at a cost 
of £9 per acre and a yield of 18 ewts. 
“The qva titics of the several manures seen to be as 
follows : 
* Phosphoric Potash § lb. to tree. Bonedust and Poonac 
8lb. to 13 lb. per tree. Leechman’s # lb. to 1 lb. per tree. 
Cattle Dung 1 ba-ket full to 3 baskets (30 lb.). 
Sombreorum: 4 to 7 oz. 
Bones: ? lb. to 1 lb. 
Cuera : # lb. to tree. 
Composts: Pulp, Lime and Ravine Soil 1. 3b. Lime, 
1 bushel Pulp. 
Do. 1 bushel Ravine Soil. 
Do. Dissolved Bones (11b.), and Swamp Soil (1 
basket). 
Do. Bolivian Guano (3 lb.), Peruvian (3 Ib.), and 
Bones (4 lb.) 
Do Cattle manure (1 basket), Guano (3 oz.) 
“Tt seems from the reports that the cost of cattle manure, 
including application, varies from £4 Is. 6d. to £10 10s. 
per acre, according to the facilities fur grazing of cattle, 
transport of bedding and manure, and other circumstances. 
Of other manures the cost, as can be gathered from the 
reports is as foll ws:— 
*¢ Artificial manures £6 2s per acre; Bones and Poonac 
£5 10s. to £8 per acre; Leechman’s £7 10s. per acre; 
Sombreorum £3 to £6 10s. per acre; Bonedust and Ashes 
£10 to £12 per acre; Poonac, Bonedust, and Bolivian 
Guano £7 2s. per acre; Poonac, Bonedust, and Guano (No. 
27) £6 15s. 3d per acre; Pulp £1 lé6s. 6d. to £2 10s. per 
acre. 
‘““Of the relative effects of the manures, the following 
seems to be the result deducible trom the majority of these 
reports :— 
“1, That Cattle manure is par excellence the best 
and most lasting. The effects remaining over two to 
three years. 
«9. Next in order come Bones and Poonac, which are 
said to be good from one to two years. 
** 3. Guano alone is considered too stimulating and not 
lasting; but in mixtures (in small quantities) with Bones 
and Poonac seems to have a very beneficial effect. 
“4, Several of the writers speak very favorably of the 
application of Pulp; and one indeed goes so far as to put 
it on a par with Cattle manure. 
©The Sub-Committee would beg now to make the fol- 
lowing suggestions with regard to mode and time of ap- 
plication of manures. First, that all lands except such 
as have little or no slope should, in the first instance, 
be carefully drained, that bulky manures should be placed 
in holes of not less size than 2 ft. 1 ft., and not exceed- 
ing one foot in depth, and at a distance of from 9 to 
18 inches from the stem of the tree. That artificial 
manures should be in semicircular holes above the tree, 
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