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Farming of Cornicall. 
waste, which was nothing hut heath and furze, the effect of the 
bones can be plainly distinguished as far as the eye can reach — as 
if a line of demarcation had been drawn between a rich grass sward 
and poor and scanty pasture. This and a dozen other experiments 
of the same kind have attracted the attention of a great many per- 
sons interested in agriculture : and the " Probus Farmers' Club," 
with a \ iew of ascertaining whether the presence of bone could be 
detected by analysis, as it could assuredly be by the appearance 
of the pasture, sent samples of the soils — one from each part of 
the field — to Mr. Hunt, for this purpose; and with a view of 
testing that gentleman's analytical abilities, he was kept en- 
y ignorant of the object of the Club. 
It:— 
Th 
8 followin 
g is the 
No 
1. 
No 
2. 
Water evaporated by stove drying . . 
14 
06 
14 
18 
Vegetable and animal matters burnt 
12 
01 
12 
05 
Silica and siliceous grit . 
49 
54 
49 
50 
Oxide of iron ..... 
7 
30 
7 
•00 
Carbonate of lime .... 
1 
05 
1 
•06 
Carbonate of magnesia . . . 
0 
25 
0 
•35 
Sulphate of lime .... 
1 
05 
i 
•04 
Muriates ..... 
0 
54 
0 
•54 
Alumina ...... 
7 
10 
6 
04 
Phosphate of lime .... 
0 
10 
0 
75 
Phosphate of magnesia 
0-0 
t 
05 
Potash ...... 
1- 
00 
1 
27 
Humus soluble in alkalies . . . 
6 
00 
6- 
17 
Thus it is proved that bone-dust remains in the land, and con- 
tinues to act as a manure, for so long a period as ten years. 
Waste Lands. 
69. The object of the Royal Agricultural Society being 
not only to show what improvements may be effected by better 
farming on land already cultivated, but also by taking new land 
into cultivation, I shall proceed to show by what means a very 
considerable tract of waste land has been successfully reclaimed, 
as an example for those who may be pursuing the same laudable 
object. The wastes of the county have been estimated at about 
200,000 acres ; a large part of this extensive waste lies on the 
central ridge of the county, and there is a very large quantity 
between Launceston and the Indian Queen. 
The greater part of these wastes is held in common — the farmers 
occupying the cultivated ground adjoining having right of pastur- 
age (9). Extending over the central ridge we find other tracts 
of wastes, but I have no example to offer until wc arrive at 
