salt as manure. 
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clammy consistence gives it a very forbidding appearance to the eye 
of the farmer, and unless he he furnished with an effectual and sim¬ 
ple method of laying it on, we need feel no surprise that he should 
hesitate about using it. As the plan I have pursued is so very much 
better than any other I have yet heard of, I will, for the information 
of those who have not hit upon it, describe it here. It may appear 
somewhat superfluous and out of place, perhaps, to those persons 
who have never associated the idea of a manure with oil or blubber, 
but to those who have, I have no doubt but it will prove acceptable. 
It should be recollected, that all the good effects that flow from rape- 
cake, may be attributed to the oil which it contains, and when we 
consider the very small portion which is left after the severe pressure 
to which the crushed rape-seed is submitted in the process of the 
manufacture, we need feel no surprise that we are able to employ so 
oily a matter as blubber advantageously. The common mode of 
preparing it is by incorporating it with light sandy earth, coal, or 
turf ashes, but these do not offer the requisite facilities for that mi¬ 
nute division in the particles of the oil, so essential for giving it the 
fullest effect. The proper quantity of blubber for an acre of land, is 
the fourth part of a ton, or sixty gallons. It will, therefore, easily 
be conceived, that to cover evenly the whole surface of an acre with 
this quantity, the most must be made of it, but this cannot be done 
with either earth or ashes. Finding neither of these suitable for the 
purpose, I had recourse to saw-dust, and a more complete vehicle for 
diffusing an oily fluid over the surface of the earth cannot be ima¬ 
gined. The plan to be pursued is as follows :—take blubber in the 
proportion of a hogshead to an acre, and of saw-dust, twenty or 
twenty-five bushels, (that from soft wood, as deal, &c. is to be pre¬ 
ferred,) spread the latter in some convenient covered place, about six 
or eight inches thick, then diffuse the blubber regularly over it. It 
is then immediately to be incorporated well together, by being seve¬ 
ral times turned, and left in a compact heap, till the next day; and 
it should every day be so effectually turned over, as that all the par¬ 
ticles of saw-dust may be divided, as any neglect in this respect 
would cause the mixture to become knobby. It requires ten or 
twelve days to complete the operation, and the test of its fitness for 
use, is the altered colour and the absence of all adhesion in the dust. 
Tt should be borne in mind, that no larger quantity should be prepa- 
red at a time, than can then be conveniently used, because if it re¬ 
mains long unturned, it is liable to contract a mould and become 
adhesive. This preparation can either be drilled or sown broadcast 
from a secd-lip.’ 
