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paths, edgings, shelves, cisterns, boxes for plants, copings, kerbs, 

 partitions, and substitutes for dwarf walls, being all made of it. The 

 order and neatness with which all the different tools, utensils, &c., are 

 kept in the horticultural and farm buildings, are most exemplary, and 

 greatly fiicilitate the despatch of business. 



In the fiirm buildings, the fittings up of the poultry-houses, the 

 rabbit-house, and the dairy and scullery, well deserve attention ; and 

 also tho arrangement for fermenting the food of the pigs in under- 

 ground cisterns, not too warm for summer, nor so cold as to cheek 

 fermentation in winter. The manure of the horses, of the cow-s, of 

 the pigs, of the rabbits, of the pigeons, and of the poultry, is kept in 

 separate pits, that it may be used, if desirable, in making up ditferent 

 composts. 



There are three liquid-manure tanks, in which the liquid matter 

 which in most f;irmyards is wasted, is fermented, and afterwards mixed 

 up with soil for use in the kitchen-garden, or used in forming composts 

 for particular plants. The liquid-manure from tlie stables is kept 

 apart from that from the cow-house ; and the general drainings of the 

 yard, and of the frame-ground in the kitciien-garden, are fermented by 

 themselves. The liquid manure with which Mr. Pratt waters his plants 

 is formed chiefly of the sweepings of the pigeon, rabbit, and cow 

 houses, with lime ; and is kept in a cask in a close shed (60 in the 

 p.H.n Fij. 6, in p. 494, 495), so that the temperature admits of its 

 ferciBnting in winter, as well as in summer : a thick scum rises to the 

 Icp o'" t' ^ cask, and the liquid is drawn out from the bottom as clear 

 as o.d a s. Tho plants which Mr. Pratt waters with this liquid are 

 chiefly those of rapid growth, such as the Datura, Brugman.sia, and 

 other soft-wooded tree plants, which, like these, are cut in every yeai 

 and appear to profit by the stimulating effect of this manure. He 

 f l. es it also, occasionally, to various other plants which appear to want 

 v;^jr ; but has not yet had sufficient experience of its effects, to give 

 a list of plants to whicli it ought to be applied. 



la order to produce as much manure as possible, as well for the 

 fBTE^. ">& fur the garden, all leaves, haulm, and waste vegetable matters, 

 are CE^'efally collected, and fermented by the addition of fresh stable 

 dUDg; wiid h> aps of different kinds of soils, procured from different 



