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On a Variety of Italian Rye- Grass, 



3. Light Dry Sand upon Red Sand. — Sown September ; no urine ; 

 produce, two crops, each 18 inches; as hay one ton and a half per 

 acre. — His Grace the Duke of Bedford. 



4. Light Soil, Sandy Subsoil. — Sown October; hght dressing, 

 stable-dung ploughed in, and dressed after cutting with tank-water from 

 the village ; seven crops ; fed twice ; mown twice, with 3 feet 6 

 inches of grass to each crop; fed twice again, and had 16 inches of 

 grass standing September 14; the crops weighed as green food 30 tons 

 per acre. — J. Whitworth, Esq. 



5. Red Sandstone. — Sown September and October; dressed with 

 13 cwt. of Ichaboe guano to the acre, and produced a net profit of 

 ^1. Qs. 8d. per acre. This valuable paper is attached entire, and is 

 highly recommended for perusal. — Capt. Buller. 



6. Sand, Subsoil Stonebrash, 12 inches of Sand upon Stonebrash. 

 — Sown September ; dressed with farm-yard liquid ; two crops ; one 

 cut green, and one for seed ; as hay, 25 cwt. to the acre. — R. S. 

 HoLFORD, Esq. 



7. Sandy Loam upon Sandstone Brash. — Sown October ; dressed 

 vi^ith rotten dung before sowing in the spring vv^ith 2 cwt. of guano to 

 the acre, and with tank-liquid after first crop; two crops; one 18 

 inches, one 14 inches high. — C. Walker, Esq. 



8. Sand upon Gravel. — Sown September ; 3 feet sand upon gravel ; 

 dressed with rotten dung ; two crops ; May, 2 feet of grass ; July, 1 

 foot and thin. — Thomas Turner, Esq., President, Veterinary College. 



9. Sandy Loam, Open Subsoil. — Sown February; dressed with 

 urine before sowing, and IJ cwt. of guano to second crop; three crops, 

 18 inches each, 20th May, 10th July, 10th September. — Thomas 

 Bulmer, Fochabers, Gordon Castle, Scotland. 



10. Light Soil, Gravelly Subsoil. — Sown November; dressed with 

 farm-yard dung in October ; no urine ; three crops ; 3 feet of grass to 

 each. — C. Porcher, Esq. 



11. Loam upon Gravel. — Not drained, no manure, no urine, except 

 upon small quantity, and considers crop would have been treble with 

 plenty of urine ; fed with ewes and lambs in spring ; yielded two crops, 

 one of seed; 172 bushels off 3 acres. — G. Wood, Esq. 



12. Heath upon Hard Native Soil. — Sown October; dressed with 

 farm-yard manure ploughed in, and guano dissolved in water ; two 

 green crops six weeks apart ; a third crop of seed ; grass very long, and 

 now feeding it off (September 17). — Lawrence Wylie, Esq. 



13. Light Black Mould upon Yellow Sandy Loam and Gravel. — 

 Sown September; dressed with cows' urine, house drainage, soapsuds, 

 water-closets and farm-yard water. Four crops : April 14, June 8 (cut 

 too late, and made into hay); August 6, for seed; and, September 10, 

 grew so strong, and so covered the land, it killed all the weeds. First 

 crop 2 feet high, and as thick as it could stand upon the land ; was 

 ready earlier than rye on one side of it, and lucerne on the other. — 

 Robert Gunter, Esq. 



