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very well on them for three weeks, and in rooting 

 among them brought them into a fine ftate for 

 putrefying. I fliould obfervc, that the httle fum- 

 mer heap of dung, &c. was fo difpofed in the lower 

 part of the yard as to keep in a large puddle of 

 water, which in fummer becomes very black and 

 rich, and is pf exxellenc fervice for rotting weeds, 

 or rubbifh of any kind. The only caution nccef- 

 fary is to take care it is not too deep, as any thing 

 entirely immerfed will not rot ; but if much of what 

 you throw in lies between wind and water, and is 

 fometimes ftirred, it will prefently rot. When the 

 hogs had done with the potatoe tops, they were 

 fuccefljvely thrown into this water, and fq became 

 a very putrid rich body of manure. 



I formed the compoft hill in the fame manner as 

 laft year: laying ditch e^rth at bottom, and piling 

 up the dung upon it; that is, the ftables, (beds, 

 and hog-houfes, were cleaned on to them; the 

 cattle being 6 horfes, 1 1 cows, fteers, and heifers, 

 befides many hogs lean and fatting. 



I alfo brought from London, one waggon load of 

 bones, and feventeen of night-foil, which I had got 

 thrown up early in autumn, to be dry enough to 

 bring ; yet herein I was difappointed, for it was 

 bu^ in indifferent order, fo that thefe feventeen 



loads. 



