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times get a dunghill of pure old rotten dung, quite 

 black, fpit dung; but it is rarely to be had, and the 

 price ys. a load: but all purchafed dung, except in 

 the neighbourhood of great cities, can be had only 

 in fmall quantities, whereas litter of fome fort or 

 other, and food for cattle, are every where to be had. 



III. 



^be Manure raijed in the Farm-Tar d^ during 

 the Winter 1 770-1. 



This winter I proceeded in a different manner 

 with my dung from what 1 had ever done before. 

 In the fummer of 1770, I was at Mr. Bakewell's, at 

 Difhlcy in Leiceflerfliire, and remarked that he 

 piled his dung up in a clamp in the middle of fome 

 of his yards ; the idea pleafed me the moment I faw 

 it, and I determined to execute it upon my own 

 farm. Mr. Bakewell ufes only dung, but I thought 

 it would be an improvement to unite my own 

 method with this; and accordingly made a layer 

 of hedge earth from a border that had been grub- 

 bed, two feet deep, and about twelve feet fquarc. 

 This was done the beginning of November. The 

 quantity of earth 26 loads (of 16 bufhels.) The 

 yards and fheds were all cleaned on to it, which 

 began my comport. 



That I might be able to make the greater plenty 

 of dung, I purchafed 43 waggon loads of fern at (i%. 



a load. 



