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heaps. 5. Improvement by superior feeding. 6. Effect on dif- 

 ferent crops. 7. Liquid manures. 



II. — Artificial manures of a similar nature prepared in towns. 



III. — Refuse manures^ as bones, rape-cake, rags, malt-dust. Sec. 



IV. — Mineral manures, as lime, chalk, gypsum, marl, saltpetre, 

 peat-ashes, salt, <&c. 



V. — Rotation of Crops. 



Under this head your Committee will only recommend, at 

 present, that endeavours should be made to ascertain the influence, 

 sometimes favourable and in other cases hurtful, which various 

 crops exercise on others by which they are followed, and which 

 is now supposed to be occasioned by an excrementitious deposit 

 left by the roots of plants in the soil. They would also, however, 

 suggest to members the practical advantage which may arise from 

 multiplying and varying their green crops for the regular support 

 of an increased amount of stock throughout the year. 



VI. — Stock. 



They will equally abstain from going into detail under this 

 head, as to the many important points in which a comparison 

 might be instituted between our different breeds of cattle and 

 sheep. They trust that one direct effect of the Society's exertions 

 will be to bring the best blood of the most improved breeds into 

 districts where these are comparatively unknown. They are 

 disposed to think that many improvements might be made in the 

 management and feeding of stock ; and they would particularly 

 recommend to members of the Society the consideration whether 

 they might not advantageously adopt a more active breed of cart- 

 horses than is usually met with in England; and whether also 

 some changes in the mode of feeding them might not produce 

 increased economy, without diminishing the comfort of the 

 animals, or injuring their condition. 



