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oily black compost. To part of each he put half the quantity of dung 
used in the other part of the garden, whilst to the other no dung was 
added. On looking over the hops just before picking commenced, no 
difference could be perceived where the bines were dunged or where 
manured w ith the cut bines ; but, where both were put, the hops were 
better. So satisfied is my tenant with the saving that this will make 
that he means to cut all his bines this year. 
I am just returned from a visit to Captain Pattenson, and the experi- 
ment on his ground is, if possible, more marked, because it w as tried in 
a hop-garden which hud been well dunged last year, but had received 
none this year — all looking well. He did not cut his bines till the 
spring, when he employed two women, who cut enough, or chopped 
them rather, with a bill, in three days to manure upwards of a quarter 
of an acre, at an expense of 5^. These were dug in at the usual time ; 
and now there is a marked difference where the bines were put, the 
leaves being fresher and greener, the hops larger ; and, the workmen 
say, at least 200 lbs. more per acre. He expects at least 800 lbs. per 
acre on this part, and 600 lbs. on the rest of the garden. So that, for 
an outlay of 5^. cutting, he will make this year not less than 4/. ; the 
present price being S/. per cwt. Surely this experiment is worth other 
hop-growers trying; and it is with this view that I send you the account 
now, as I think the greener the bines are cut the more weight will be 
got, and the easier the operation will be performed. 
Now I am on the subject of manures I must mention that I hate 
never tried anything for turnips at all equal to Lawe's super-phosphate 
of lime. I tried it on an old ley that hud been broken up two years, 
against Potter's, Peruvian, and African guano ; it beat them all, particu- 
larly in coming to the hoe — a week at least before the Peruvian, ten 
days before the African, three weeks before Potter's ; whilst the ex- 
pense is nearly 1/. per acre less : and I make no doubt that the weight 
per acre will be more, from the plant being so regular, which is not the 
case with the other manures. I find also, from a neighbour, who put 4 ' 
bushels to the acre on clover in March last, that his produce was 
doubled. 
I remain your humble servant, 
John Maxwell Tylden. 
Milsted, Sittingbourn, 
Sept. 11, 1844. 
XVI. — Trial of Superphosphate and other Manures. By 
Edward Strouts. 
The following is the result of an agricultural experiment of the Right 
Hon. Thomas Peraberton Leigh, of Tory Hill, in the county of Kent; 
who requested his tenant, Mr. Edward Strouts, of Kingsdown, Kent, to 
carry out the experiment — being paid the cost price of the four manures 
used as a top-dressing. The experiment was upon a clover-ley wheat 
crop, w ith farm-yard manure, ploughed in at the lime of wheat-sowing 
