BUNG* 2 8 7 



left urine in proper veffels which they keep in 

 their own honfes. If the crop has been good 

 a pekul of the firit fort of manure coils two 

 flies; and the fame quantity of the latter, 

 only half that price. Befides this, every huf- 

 bandman takes care to make ufe of the excre- 

 ment which his beads drop on the paftures : 

 children and fuch people as cannot do other 

 bufmefs, gather it. They likewife pick up all 

 bones, burn them, and fpread their allies, to- 

 gether with the afhes of burnt plants and 

 boughs, over the fields, to promote fertility. 



Such fields as are moift, but higher than 

 thofe whereof we have till now been fpeak- 

 ing, and confifl of deeper mould, are manured, 

 ploughed, and laid very fmooth. In fuch a 

 field they fow wheat very thick together, hav- 

 ing before foaked it for fome days in the filthy 

 water of a dunghill ; afterwards they tranf- 

 plant the plants. Sometimes this foaked wheat 

 is grain by grain planted over the whole .field, 

 fo that each grain may Hand four inches from 

 the other. The foil is thrown up in ridges 

 towards the grain. In a great drought a little 

 water is brought over the fields, by which 

 means the deep furrows occafioned by carting 

 the foil up towards the wheat, receive the 

 6 water* 



