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Trials of Artificial Manures. 
The rents are paid annually, on Michaelmas-daj. They never 
fall into arrear ; for the people are too anxious to retain their 
allotments, which would be forfeited if they neglected to make 
their payments without permission. In twenty years I have found 
occasion only once to deprive a man of his land on account of 
crime ; and in one other instance, on account of neglect in the 
cultivation. 
I beg leave to state that it will be found essential, especially in 
populous neighbourhoods, to make it a stringent article in the 
regulation of allotments, that no portion should be under-let, or 
transferred in any way to another person without leave from the 
landlord. Immediate forfeiture should be the penalty of such a 
proceeding. 
Believe me. Sir, 
Your very faithful servant, 
Henry Edward Bunbury. 
Barton, Dec. 1844. 
XX. — Trial of several Artificial Manures. By William 
Miles, Esq., M.P. 
My dear Pusey, 
It has often struck me when reading in the Journal ihe accounts 
of experiments made with different kinds of manures, that for the 
•information of tenants on small holdings our trials have never 
been sufficiently carried out; for if the manures lately brought 
into use are to be of general benefit to the farming community, 
it appears necessary to place their merits in so intelligible a light 
"before the farmer of small capital that he may at a glance per- 
ceive that their original cost will be amply compensated by the 
beneficial results which will follow their use ; that their effects 
are not transient, and confined solely to the first crop to which 
they may be applied, but are fully appreciable in that which may 
succeed. The common farm-yard manure, could we only raise 
a sufficiency, would be adequate to all our wants ; but taking into 
consideration the little care that is used to preserve its fertilizing 
properties from evaporation, and the few tanks which are yet 
placed in the yards to collect the drainings from the dung-heap, 
it appears to me impossible ever to obtain a sufficiency from this 
source to enable us to raise the fertility of the soil to that point 
which may enable us to cope with the moderate prices which we 
have obtained for our produce of late; added to which that 
seasons might occur like the present, when, from the almost uni- 
versal deficiency of the grass crops, the necessity arises of con- 
