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their water into refervoirs made, convenient for re« 

 cciving it, to be thrown upon the dung. 



Jn April, in warm fhowery weather, he turns over 

 his dung, a boy (landing by with a bafket of fait, 

 ftrewing at the rate of one pound of fait ^o a cubical 

 yard of dung. He has alfo a cowl or veflel on 

 wheels; to remove the refufe of the houfe (dud, &c.) 

 to the farm-yard, which affords feveral good loads 

 of manure a year. 



The weight of his fmall weighing coop is i cwt. 

 5 lb. The fteelyard was made on purpofe. The 

 cxpence of the machine was 26s. It will weigh an 

 animal, or any thing not exceeding 6 cwt. 



When turnips are taken up to clear the ground 

 for Lent-crops, it is ufual about Bury to cut off the 

 tap-roots, and place the turnips on the ground in a 

 dry pafture, fide by fide, till wanted. The green is 

 left, and put uppermoft. But the green is rarely 

 confiderable in lands well adapted to turnips, as they 

 are in that neighbourhood, in comparifon to what 

 it is in heavy and (Irong lands, not very fui table to 

 turnips j where they are apt to run more to green, 

 and lefs to apple. 



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