15

Produce, lb. 17. Dung of poultry and ſand—— 156, rather ſmall 18. Saw-duſt and lime—— 19)7, ditto— 19. Decayed ruſhes and lime—— 208, very good — 20. Tanners bark and lime—— 756, very poor 21. Bark and ſtable dung—— 144, rather larger 22. Bark alone—— 358, very poor

23. Stable dung and lime ſpread over the land— 230, pretty fine 24. Chopped whins,with a covering of lime 6 over them—— 256, very fine The manure in furrows of; feet lands. As ftable dung and moſs ſeemed to have the advantage, they were carefully compared in another experi- ment; the refult was a perfect equality.(†)—

0B8 ERVATIONS.

From the nature of various manures applied to ſoils exceedingly different, it is neceſſarily impoſſible that the reſult fhould be in any degree ſimilar, or that preciſe conclufions ſhould be ceafily drawn. Contradictions and difficulties do not always reſult from inaccuracy, but from hidden cir- cumſtances which eſcape the experimenters. The term load is ſo undefined, that it fhould never be uſed without ſome further ſpecification of weight or meaſure. There is, in this article of manure, an immenſe field yet open for future trials; and which highly deſerves the attention of thoſe who can make the requiſite experiments.—

SECTITON IX. OF THE CUILTURE BY PARING AND BURNING. Authority Hom the County Reports. TME Semnon möde, in Cornwall, is to piant the end.of April, or

beginning of May; after paring and burning, produee from 400 to 540 buſhels per acre.(a)

Other Authorities. — About Annſgrove, in Ireland, they are exceedingly fond of paring and burning for potatoes; get very groat crops by it; and, which never fail, eſpecially on waſte lands. Do it in March and April.(⁵))

( Georgical Effays, vol. 4. P. 48.( Cornwall, p. 38.(5) Iriſh Tour, vol. 1. p. 369.