in due proportion to each other, and I also wished to ascertain whether wheat and oats would thrive equally well with the same sort of manuring.  I accordingly limed the land soon after the wheat came up, and in March I applied silicate of soda, sulphate of magnesia, gypsum, common salt, and nitrate of soda.  A fortnight after this I applied guano, then bones dissolved in sulphuric acid, then woollen rags dissolved in potash (the two latter in weak solution); and the consequence was, that I don’t think there was a single grain in the whole parcel—­at least I could not find one—­the straw was no great length, and the blade much discolored with mildew, whilst the oats were seven feet high, and with straws through which I could blow a pea, and large panicles, although the oat was not particularly well-fed.  The inference I have drawn from these experiments is, that as far as is practicable the manuring should be adapted to the temperature, but as this is obviously impossible in a climate like ours, the only way is to rather under than over manure, and to apply no ammoniacal manure to the wheat crop, or at all events very little; for although guano was beneficial to wheat when used in conjunction with silicates, &c. &c. in 1844, yet the injury it did in 1845 may very fairly be set against that benefit.  I should feel obliged if any of your readers who may have tried the experiment of manuring grain crops with guano, the last season (1845) would publish the result as compared with a similar crop without such manuring.  I feel convinced that such result would be against the use of guano for wheat in 1845.  I am the more confirmed in the opinion that ammoniacal manures are unfavourable for wheat, by a series of articles in the “Gardener’s Chronicle” on the “Geo-Agriculture of Middlesex,” in which the writer states that land in that county which in Queen Elizabeth’s time produced such good wheat that it was reserved for her especial use, will now scarcely grow wheat at all, and when that grain is sowed upon it, the straw is always mildewed, and the sample very poor; and this is attributed—­and no doubt justly so—­to the extensive use of London manure.  My crop was only 32 bushels to the acre of 60 lbs. to the bushel; last year the crop, as I have said before, was 50 bushels of the same weight.

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To the same.

CLITHEROE, 7th March, 1848.

On continuing my attempts to grow wheat on the same land year after year, I observed that the crop of 1845 was very seriously injured by the deficient drainage—­the old drains having been destroyed by the subsoil plough.  It was therefore necessary to replace them:  they were accordingly put in four feet deep.  This occupied so much time that the season for sowing wheat had gone by, and the ground was cropped with potatoes, which were got up in September, and the wheat might have been got in early in October.  But seeing in your paper that sowing too early was not advisable,