Is at all times reprehensible, but more especially as they are employed
as a manure for dry soils, with the very best effect. They are commonly
ground and drilled in, in the form of powder, with turnip seed. Mr.
Huskisson estimated the real value of bones annually imported,
(principally from the Netherlands and Germany) for the purpose of being
used as a manure, at 100,000_l._; and he contended that it was not
too much to suppose that an advance of between 100,000_l._ and
200,000_l._ expended on this article occasioned 500,000 additional
quarters of corn to be brought to market.--_Loudon's Encycl.
Agricult._
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