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The daily practice of every hufbandman clearly 

 fhews, that thofe fertilizing particles, of whatever 

 they conlift, are to be found in every article of 

 the vegetable and animal kingdom, that is capable 

 of fermentation, and c! involution by putrefaction. 

 The dung-heap, which is a promifcuoils combi- 

 nation of thefe fubftances, when in the higheft 

 (late of putrefcence, is perhaps the ftrongeft* and 

 mod efficacious of any general manure. Were 

 this to be had in quantities equal to the farmer's 

 withes, at a moderate price, his fields might be 

 always fertile, as it would be a fund fufficient to 

 refrore thofe principles of vegetation which the 

 mod exhaufting crops could annually take from 

 the foil. It is a matter perfectly uninterefting to 

 the practical farmer, by what name the philofo- 

 phical chymiii may call thofe fertilizing princi- 

 ples. They may be oils, fait, fulphur, water, 

 earth, fome or all combined together. The 

 knowledge of this is of no importance to him. 

 He is a ftranger indeed to chymical analization, 

 but he is perfectly acquainted with the grofs fub- 

 llance, in which thofe particles fo neceffary to 

 reftore fertility to his exhaufted fields are to be 

 found; and experience has taught him the beft 

 feafon, and moft beneficial method, of applying 

 them for the benefit of his crops. Could the far- 

 mer procure a fufficient quantity of this manure, 



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