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In the ashes there were — 



Pistachio. Camelina. Hemp. Colza. Beech. Linseed. Poppy. Sesamum. 

 Soluble Salts 0--27 0-09S 0-577 0-13 0-124 0*70 0-62 0-57 



Pliospbates 1 



reckonedas [ 1-20 4-200 7*100 6-50 2-100 4-90 6-30 3-20 

 bone phosphate J 



Naw, upon comparing the results of our analysis with those just 

 given, it will be seen, that although the expressed cake of the Ricinus 

 is certainly not so rich as many there named, still the proportion of 

 fertilizing ingredients it contains is far from being contemptible. 

 And, if it be true, as MM. Boussingault and Payen assert, that the 

 value of a manure is in direct proportion to the quantity of phosphoric 

 acid and nitrogen that it contains, then there can be no doubt that the 

 Jatropha manure will ultimately prove a most useful and valuable 

 fertilizer. No experimental trial, however, so far as I am aware, has 

 been made with it, and consequently we do not as yet know hovv' far 

 experiment will bear out the deductions of science. 



I remain. Sir, your obedient Servant, 



Thornton J. Herapath. 



Mansion House, Old Park, Bristol, 

 July 2Qth, 1851, 



XVI I. — Farming of Lincolnsliire, By John Algernon Clarke. 

 Prize Report. 



The county of Lincoln is celebrated both for its natural and 

 acquired excellences : for the richness of its wide alluvial plains^ 

 the tillage of its bleak stony wastes, and the improvement of its 

 fens by embankment and drainage. It is comprised between the 

 parallels of 52° 40' and 53° 43' north latitude ; and between the 

 meridians 0° 22' east and 0° 56' west longitude. It is 74 miles in 

 length, north and south, and 46 miles east and west ; having an 

 area of 2748 square miles, equivalent to 1,758,720 statute acres, 

 or 1,652,165 acres exclusive of roads, rivers, &c. In size it is 

 the second county in England; in population the thirteenth. By 

 the census of 1841 it contained 362,717 inhabitants; being an 

 increase since the return made in 1831 of 45,473. Of this num- 

 ber 57,561 persons are engaged in agricultural pursuits. The 

 labourers amounted to 45,394 ; farmers and graziers to 11,288. 

 Since the drainage of the Fens numerous villages have sprung up 

 where previously was nothing but a watery waste, w^ithout house 

 or inhabitant, and several of the bordering towns have doubled 

 their population ; so that the total population has increased nearly 

 4000 per annum during the last 40 years — a much more rapid 

 increase than that of most agricultural counties. 



The climate of Lincolnshire offers few peculiarities, except that 

 along the whole line of coast the land is openlv exposed to the 



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