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richer the dung, according to the ideas of thefe 

 gentlemen, the lefs the fermentation. This is an 

 argument in favour of quantiiy^ for the yard com- 

 poft (unlefs for meadow ground, which is an ex- 

 ception to this reafoning, from the difficulty of 

 entrance into the foil) Ihould be carried on to the 

 land, and ploughed in while in full fermentation, 

 which is before its quantity is much diminifhed. 

 Let it however be remembered, that this reafoning 

 is here applied particularly to the foils in queftion; 

 there are others in which it would not be proper. 



As to carriage being increafed; farmers form 

 comports of earth and dung, ftratum fuper (Iratum, 

 a pradlice extremely common; the expence is the 

 fame as in my method, only by making the heap 

 in my yard, I have the advantage of retaining the 

 urine, &c. in the manner of which I have fpoken. 



The compofi: became by the middle of May of 

 an uncommon fize for fo fmall a farm as mine, 

 (only 97 acres) it was in feveral parts fix feet thick, 

 and in all four or five. I then fet about turning it 

 over, and mixing it well together; in doing this, I 

 agreed with four labourers to perform that opera- 

 tion, and alfo to cart it into the fields, and fpread it 

 on the land, I finding them two three-wheeled 

 carts and a horfej and they to receive for the whole 



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