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any layer of earth; in which, however, I failed. In 

 five months they made me 23 loads of excellent 

 rotten dung. It was an omiflion not to appropriate 

 a load of fern, that I might have known the expence 

 and profit, but the value of the dung was not as 

 prices go in this country, under 2s. a load, or 46s. 

 from thirty fheep. The Iheep contraded no dif- 

 order of any kind from lying on the heap ;* and 

 went through the winter in full health. Indeed it 

 muft ftand to every one's reafon that fuch a lodg- 

 ing muft: be far preferable to the wet earth expofed 

 to the driving rains and cold winds. 



IV. 



The Manure raijed in the Farm-Tard in th£ 

 IVinter 177 1-2. 



The feventy loads left of lad winter's heap, being 

 the laft divifion built, remained through the fum- 

 mer of 1771 untouched, and the dung of this 

 winter piled in divifions againft it. In Odlober the 

 whole yard was littered about five inches thick with 

 fern. The latter end of that month, and through 

 November, I took up fomething more than an acre 

 and a half of carrots, which were carted into the 



• * This is what we ihould not have expe£led j and although Mr. Young's 

 Jheep efcaped injury, we cannot recommend the practice, as the exhalations 

 arifing from a fermented inafs of manure muft, we think, be very unhealthy, 

 particularly for iheep. 



yard. 



