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better than loo loads of dung and earth mixed— 

 that I greatly increafe the expencc of carriage ; and 

 that the more you reduce manure to its eflence, 

 the better. 



With fubmiflion, I differ from them in every 

 particular. The enquiry is not whether lOO loads 

 of dung be better than loo loads of my compoll, 

 but whether it be better than the fame quantity of 

 dung mixed with 50 loads of earth in the manner 

 I have mentioned. 



Let it be confidcred, that the dung, as it is com- 

 monly managed, has its virtue waihed through 

 without any other fubftance being ready to receive 

 it. Therefore, the point in queflion is, the addi- 

 tion which I make to my dunghill by retaining fo 

 much of the urine, and the wafliing of the dung;, 

 it is not the mere comparifon of the dung ^ivi 

 earth, though I fhould be inclined to the pradice,. 

 if that only were the cafc; but it is the addition 

 which I gain of urine. When the whole compoft 

 is mixed together, it is not mere earth that is under 

 the dung, but a body replete with riches; turf, 

 earth, &:c. quite faturated with urine, and all thbfc 

 particles which rain, &c. carry through dunghills; 

 the mixing thefe bodies together renders the whole 

 mafs nearly of equal goodnefs: on fome foils it 



undoubtedly 



