Drill for distributing ISuperpltofi'luttc. 
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" Codforil, Nov. 24th, 1847. 
" Sir, — 111 reply to your inquiry as to my opinion ot (lie Liquid Manure 
Drill, and tlie system of putting in turnips with dissolved bones diluted, 
I think it the greatest advance in agricultural improvemeiit that has yet 
taken place. The difficulty I had anticipated in applying the liquid was 
entirely removed from my mind when I saw your drill at work ; I am now 
l^erfectly satisfied that there is not only a vast saving of manure, but also 
in the time occupied in drilling. We drilled five acres of rape in eight 
liours with your one-horse drill ; and from its being our first attempt I 
have no doubt with a little more practice we shall get on faster. The 
five acres of rape were put in July 30th, with 8 cwt. superphosphate of 
lime. An adjoining part of the field, under the same tillage, but sown a 
week previously, to which we had applied 4 bushels of bone-dust and 2 
bushels of dissolved bone, with 50 bushels of ashes per acre (notwithstand- 
ing the expense was twice as much), is not so good by considerable as tl>at 
portion manured with the liquid. 
" I have in my possession an excellent Compost Drill by Hornsby, but so 
satisfied am I with the use of your Liquid Manure Drill, that I shall feel 
obliged by your sending me one before the commencement of the next 
season. 
" Yours truly, 
" To Mr. Thomas Chandler." " Wm. Bennett." 
" Fishevton- de-la- Merc, Nov. 3Qth, 1847. 
" Sir, — The turnips that w ere put in with your Liquid l\Ianure Drill 
(although under very adverse circumstances, it being very wet), with one 
sack of dissolved bones per acre, have very far excelled any that I have 
on my farm beside, even where we had applied two sacks of bone-dust, 
and as many ashes as could be made to go through the drill. 
" I was surprised at the expeditious manner that the drill performed its 
work, as were also the company in general who were present to witness 
the ploughing-match of the Wiltshire Society, held on my farm on that 
day (June 17th). 
" I am, Sir, yours truly, 
" To Mr. Thomas Chandler," " John Filf. H.\rt." 
" Kilmmgton, Nov. 27/h, 1847- 
" My DEAR Sir, — In answer to yours of the 24th instant, I beg to say I 
have been constantly watching and comparing the growth of my turnips 
put in by your Liquid Manure Drill with two bushels of dissolved bones and 
water per acre, and those put in the same day, side by sidf, with just 
double the quantity of dissolved bones and ashes, and am bound to say that, 
from their first appearance to the present time, the superiority of your 
drilling has been most apparent. I think by your system there must be 
at all times a greater certainty of a crop, from the lapid growth of the 
plant in its earliest stages ; and as the expense of supplying water, &c., is 
not greater than that of supplying ashes in the ordinary way, and as your 
drill is capable of putting in quite as many acres per day as any other drill 
of the same breadth, I not only consider it most valuable, but think it 
will be found almost indispensable. 
" I am, dear Sir, yours most truly. 
To Mr. Thomas Chandler." " Jos. Lusu." 
Ilcelc, Woodford, Salisbunj, Bee. 24th, 1847. 
" My dear Sir, — I have much pleasure in informing you, that, although 
very late (and after vetches too), the turnips I put in with your " Liquid 
