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V. A quick and eafy Method of converting Heeds and other 

 Vegetable Matter into Manure. By Mr. Brown of 

 Derby. From, the Tranfa£fcions of the Society for the 

 Encouragement of Arts, &c. Vol. XVI. 



X BEG leave to communicate to the Society, and, if 

 thought worth notice, by them to the world, a compofition 

 for manure. Fearful it would not anfwer the purpofe io 

 fully as I could wilh, I deferred it from year to year ; but I 

 now find, both by numerous trials made by my friends, as 

 well as myfelf, the very great utility of the compofition, as 

 well as its cheapnefs, with the capability of its being made 

 in any fituation and in any quantity. The mode of making- 

 it is as fimple as, T truft, it will be found productive. It is 

 nothing more than green vegetable matter, decompofed by 

 quick or frefli-burnt lime. A layer of the vegetable matter 

 about a foot thick, then a very thin layer of lime, beat fmall, 

 and fo on ; firft vegetable, then lime, alternately. After it 

 has been put together a few hour3, the decompofition will 

 begin to take place ; and unlcfs prevented, either by a few 

 fods, or a forkfull of the vegetables at hand, it will break out 

 into a blaze, which mult at all events be prevented. In 

 about twenty-four hours the procefs will be complete, when 

 you will have a quantity of allies ready to lay on your land 

 at any time you wifh. Any and all forts of vegetables, if 

 ufed green, will anfwer the purpofe; fay weeds of every de- 

 fcription. They will doubly ferve the farmer, as they will 

 not only be got at a fmall expence, but will in time render 

 his farm more valuable, by being deprived of all noifome 

 weeds. 



But if this compofition anfwers the purpofe, as I flatter 

 myfelf it will, a very fihort time will fee almod every weed 

 deftroyed, which fuppofing to be the cafe, I have made my 

 calculations with clover, grown for the purpofe; for inftance, 

 J will take one acre of clover, which at one cutting will 



produce 



