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Report of the committee of the board of agriculture, appointed to extract information from the county reports, and other authorities, concerning the culture and use of potatoes
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Mr. Young, comparing different manures, had the following reſult:

Buſh. ¹ Second Vear No. 1. No manure, produced 120 per acre 140 2. Night ſoil 10 wag. loads 600 640

3. Ditto 6 ditto 650 500

4. Ditto 2 ditto 500 288 300

5. Bones 10 ditto 650 640 - 6, Ditto 6 ditto 640 56o 7. Ditto 2 ditto 5600 240

8. Hog-dung 60 Berhore 480

5 300 cart loads 1 9. Ditto 30 ditto 480 160 10. Vard compoſt 60 ditto 300 240. 11. Ditto 120 ditto 480 300 12. Ditto 30 ditto 140 140 ½☛/

Mr. Barber compared dung, cob or mud-walls, and rotten ſtraw. An acre manured with dung was 637 bufhels, mud 320, rotten ſtraw 255§.(a) Sea-weed uſed with fucceſs in Scotland, put in the furrows of the drills; then bear, then oats, and then potatoes again. All the crops good.(6) In Inverneſsfhire they uſe fern as manure on lazy-beds; but the crops ppoor(c). The refuſe of peat ſtacks and peat aſhes, the beſt of all manure for potatoes.(d) Mr. Greenhill, of Eaſt Ham, aſſerts that lime is pernicious; it ſpots, and

eyen ſcabs, and eats into them.( Mr. Townly, of Belfield, compared different manures. V Produce, lb.. No. 1. Coal aſhes only 211, rather ſmall 2. Stable dung and coal aſhes mixed 344, very fine 3. Stable dung alone 315, ditto . 4. No manure 134, very ſmall 5. Compoſt, dung, lime; and ſoil 204, middling. 6. Stable dung cov. with com. yellow moſs 438, remarkably fine 7. Soaper's waſte- 383, very fine... 8. Stable dung and lime 268, tolerable* 9. Lime alone 1987, ditto 10. Coal aſhes and lime 1092, ditto 11. Stable dung and foaper's waſte 298, very good 12. Soot ſoil and coal afhes 271, ditto 1 13. Salt and ſoil 20o, ditto 14. Saw-duſt and coal aſhes 100, ſmaller 15§. Stable dung and ſaw-duſt 30)7, very fine 16. Dung of poultry and coal ahhes 2 36, pretty fine G

(2) Soc. Tranf. vol. 3. p. 70.(a) Ibid. vol. 1I. p. 39.(b) Wight, vol. 3. p. 151. (c) Ibid. vol. 4. part 1. p. 144.(d) Ibid. P. 145.(e) Ms. Papers of the Board,