Farmin/) of the North Ridiiir/ of Yorkshire. 
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saturated time after time, is found to be a most valuable 
manure. 
The instances where the tanks are the most useful are where 
the whole of the eaves are spouted, and no excess of water is 
permitted to saturate the manure. They are of brick, sunk at a 
low level, and covered and lined with a coat of Roman cement, 
and of a capacity of a cubic yard to each ten acres on the faun. 
Improvements required. 
I have glanced at the improveme)its in order, as we have 
passed over the various districts ; and it will be perceived that 
thoun[h portions of the Riding are farmed so highly that it would 
be difficult to suggest any very extensive improvements in the 
mode of cultivation adopted, still there are large districts where 
scarcely a beginning has been made. The whole valley of the 
Rye and the Derwent is about being drained by removing the 
mill-dams at Malton, and thus obtaining fall ; and this pass 
being lowered it is hardly conceivable what results in improved 
value of the land in these valleys may be attained. It is sur- 
prising that a tract like Pillmoor, on the side of the York and 
Newcastle Railway, should remain in its present desolate state, 
not worth Is. per acre, when, by an outlay of some 10/. or 
12/. per acre, the whole might be made worth a rental of 205. 
to 25s. 
XXVII. — On a Drill for distributing Siiperphosphate in a Liquid 
State. By Thomas Chandler. 
To Mr. Pusey. 
Sir, — Agreeably to your request, I herewith forward you the 
result of my experiments in the culture of turnips with super- 
phosphate of lime in solution, in comparison with the same 
manure in compost. 
It might have carried more weight with it had it come from a 
less interested party, but still I trust that, from being known per- 
sonally to some readers of the Journal, and from many leading 
agriculturists having inspected those experiments, they will be 
relied upon as unprejudiced facts. 
I also send the opinions of other farmers who have tried the 
machine, which I should have mentioned first but that my own 
experience has extended over a longer period, and has been 
formed under a greater variety of soils and circumstances. 
My attention was first called to the subject by reading the very 
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