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Article XLIV. 

 On the U/e of Stagnant Water as a Manure. 

 [By a Gentleman Farmer in Norfolk.] 

 Gentlemen, 

 T Make no apology for tranfmitting to you an 

 •*■ account of the following experiment, becaufe 

 I think it may prove as ufeful to others as it has 

 been to myfelf. 



At the lower end of my farm-yard is an old 

 pond, or refervoir of water, which is the common 

 receptacle of every thing that drains from the 

 other parts of my yard, ftables, and the ditches of 

 feveral fields. On my firft coming into the farm, 

 it was nearly dry, but during the courfe of the 

 winter, a confiderable quantity of water was col- 

 lected in it, which, as the fpring advanced, grew 

 very thick ^nd dark-coloured, and in the fummer 

 abounded, with infers. 



The weather proving dry, and my pumps failing, 

 I ufed a quantity of this water for my garden, and 

 was foon furprifed to fee how ftrong and vigorous 

 the plants proved that were watered with it. This 

 led me to confider that it might probably prove a 

 rich manure for pafture-land > but the quantity then 



remaining 



