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V, — Exj)erimenfs on Different Manures for Carrots. 
By. J. M. Aynesley. 
Red Allenngham Ca7Tots. 
Weislit 
of each 
I'ercli. 
Weight 
per Acre. 
Weights of 
Tops 
per Acre. 
Manure used. 
Quantity 
per 
Acre. 
Cost 
per 
Acre. 
£. 
s. 
d. 
34 tons . 
i 
4 
0 
8 cwt. . 
2 
11 
3 
32 busli. . 
1 
14 
0 
24 bush. . 
4 
2 
C> 
60 busli. . 
2 
2 
G 
24 tons . 
16 
0 
lbs. 
270 
299 
295 
301 
314 
307 
6 80 
3 (i4 
Tons. cwts. lbs. 
19 
21 
21 
21 
23 
21 
Tons. cwts. lbs 
7 10 
8 0 
48 
0 
64 
18 64 
0 Coal- ashes 
0 [ Rape-dust 
J Daniel's patent 
( manure 
Bone-dust 
fSalt, 6 bush. .1 
(Soot, 54 bush. . I 
Stable-manure . 
:1 
fVhite or Belgian Carrots. 
350 
25 
0 
0 
8 
16 
8 
381 
27 
4 
32 
9 
2 
96 
380i 
27 
3 
64 
9 
7 
16 
365 
26 
1 
48 
9 
15 
80 \ 
412 
20 
8 
64 
9 
14 
100 
398 
2S 
8 
64 
8 
11 
48 
, ( matmre . ./ 
Bone-dust . . 
24 tons . 
4 
4 
0 
8 cwt. . 
2 
11 
3 
32 bush. . 
1 
11 
0 
24 bush. . 
4 
2 
6 
60 bush. . 
2 
2 
6 
24 tons . 
4 
16 
0 
The antecedent crops were, in 1840, potatoes, manured with stable- 
dung; in 1841, beans. 
Tlie seed was hoed in upon the 19th of April, at the rate of 8 lbs. 
per acre. The white carrots were pulled on the 4th of November, the 
red on the 21st. The soil was a clayey loam, 1 foot in depth, resting 
on a stifl' clay. 
The unnianured carrots were not weighed, but the white were sup- 
posed to be about 20 tons; the red 16i tons per acre. 
The present crop is wheat hoed in on the 3rd of December ; all looking 
well, though rather too rank ; the coal-ashes and stable-manure rather 
the best. All the manure was bought in Bristol. I have charged 
half-a-crown as back-carriage for hauling it out, the distance 8 miles, 
upon a good turnpike-road. 
Fern Hill, Tockington, 
1842. 
VI. — On the Black Foxtail Grass (^Alupecuru.s ?). 
By W. P. Taunton. 
To tlie Secretary. 
Siii, — I have the honour to transmit by the mail of the 1st of May a 
specimen, cut on the 30th of April, of Alopecurus nigricans, a Siberian 
