Drill for distrihutinff Superphosphate. 
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No. 2. 
A very poor piece of land, containing 18 acres, valued by an emi- 
nent land-surveyor at 7s. per acre ; previous crop, oats. 
May 1 8th. 
Lot 1. — 10 acres. Drilled with 1 sack of dissolved bones per acre, 
diluted witli 400 gallons of water from a sheep-pond. 
Lot 2. — 8 acres. Drilled with 1 sack of bones dissolved, mixed with 
four one-horse cart-loads per acre of a compost of night-soil, the 
sweepings of the stable, and ashes. 
Lot 1 came first to hoe, and produced 16 tons 2 cwt. 
Lot 2 nearly a week later to hoe 13 ,, 4 ,, 
No. 3. 
Soil a flinty loam ; previous crop vetches, mown for hay. Manured 
with farm-yard manure. Drilled, July 3rd, 7 acres, with IJ cwt. of 
superphosphate of lime in solution, with 300 gallons of tank-water per 
acre. 
Weighed January 27th, 1848. Produce, 13 tons 7 cwt. per acre. 
The drill was purposely allowed to go half the length of the furlong 
without any liquid. On this part there was not 5 cwt. per acre. The 
fly carried them ofi*. 
As turnip husbandry is the most approved method of enriching 
the soil, and, consequently, of increasing the production of corn, 
and as it is now carried on to so great an extent, any system that 
will have the effect of reducing the items of expenditure which 
come under this head will, I am sure, not go unnoticed by the 
practical agriculturist. 
After the successful trials during three years (and the appear- 
ance of the turnips this year where it has been tried in the same 
way, notwithstanding that the wet season has assisted the compost, 
is greatly in favour of the liquid), I am so satisfied of the 
economy of applying soluble manure in a liquid form, that I have 
this season put in the whole of my roots, including the mangolds 
— together 140 acres — in this way, the cost of which for artificial 
manures will not exceed 10s. per acre. 
It will be necessary, in order to explain how so small a quaiir 
tity has been applied, to state the system I adopt in growing 
roots. 
My farm consists of bottom, hill, and bake land, which I will 
describe separately. The " bottom " land is sown with wheat 
every other year, and a green crop between, which is one-eighth 
rye, one- eighth hop-clover, and one fourth vetches, the remaining 
part mangold, beans, and clover. The rye is fed twice. The 
sheep the last time it is fed lie in a fold on it by night, while in 
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