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ART, XXIXs 
An Account of an easy Method of Manuring for 
Potatoes; and on the Managemeni of Swine, Kc. 
In a Letter to the SECRETARY, 
[By James Wicxins, efq.] 
Pondhead-Lodge, near Lyndhurst, 
DEAR SIR, Hants, Oct. 24, 1798. 
i been from home, and otherwife engaged; 
or your laft favour fhould have met an earlier 
reply. 
The only experiments that have lately occurred 
to me are, the appropriation of the early turnip- 
green to autumnal feed for fheep and cattle, (as 
hinted in my laft;) and the fubftituting in the place 
of dung, for the culture of potatoes, the fhovellings’ 
from the woods, confifting of light mould, long ex- 
pofed to the influence of the atmofphere, and ferti- 
lized thereby, together with the fallen leaves, The 
dung from hogs and other cattle, rotten wood, and 
a variety of otner compott colleéted during the win- 
ter, and applied to the potatoe-grounds in the fpring 
by ploughing in, and depofiting the feed along with 
it in the furrow. I have of late years been in the 
habit of adopting this compoft, which I have found 
very 
