Bones and Sulphuric Acid as Manures. 
447 
The autumn and winter having been so very favourable for the 
growth of turnips, the crop would no doubt have been much hea- 
vier if a larger sort of turnips had been sown. Another thing 
which operated very strongly against the crop was (the field 
being sidelong), the hail and rain accompanying the dreadful 
thunder-storm of the 9lh of August washed much soil and ma- 
nure from each lot, so that in the steeper parts of the field there 
were few turnips. So severe was the storm, that the seed that had 
been planted the day before, was actually washed out of the 
ground, to the extent of about an acre of the part manured with 
the sulphuric acid, so that not a single turnip made its appearance. 
What was then deplored as an evil may turn out to be a great 
saving to the farmer, for although this part was not ridged up 
again and replanted for nine or ten days, the turnips grown upon 
it were fully equal to those on lot No. 7, having 20 bushels of 
bones per acre; thus showing that the solution had not been all 
washed away with the soil. 
The fact that the storm did not wash away the solution in the 
last acre sown (although in the steep parts of the field the other 
manures except the dung were nearly destroyed), shows that 
perhaps half the quantity will be sufficient, and that the great 
chemist Liebig, to whom we are indebted for this valuable disco- 
very, is right wlien he says that a much smaller quantity of bones 
and acid (viz. 40 lbs. fine bone-dust, and 20 lbs. sulphuric acid 
per acre) will produce a good crop of turnips. 
Pilstone, near Chepstow, 
20th February, 1844. 
No. 4. — Report hy the Committee appointed by the Morayshire 
Farmer Club to examine the Experiments made by Candidates 
for the Premiums offered for the Growth of Turnips by new 
Manures — Season 1843. Communicated by the President, 
His Grace the Duke of Richmond. 
The committee found that there were two candidates for these 
premiums, viz., Mr. M'William, SheriflFston, and Dr. Manson, 
Spynie ; and they took the opportunity of examining these ex- 
periments on the same day as that of the turnip- brakes. After 
duly ascertaining that the requisite quantity of ground was experi- 
mented upon, they proceeded to inspect, though not to weigh, the 
turnips. They found Mr. M 'William's extended to no less than 
thirty and one-half acres, comprising nearly the whole of his 
turnip-brake. 
The experiments- were conducted with the minutest care and 
