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cd ; and when thrashed out, the produce 

 was four bushels per acre, and in appear- 

 ance as good a crop as any in the country. 

 After we had sown the oats, I prepared 

 four acres and a half for winter potatoes in 

 as correct a manner as was possible, and 

 dunged with twelve thousand bushels of 

 good dung of the cows and horses, made 

 from linseed-cake, and Indian corn-stalks 

 blades and tops all chopped up together. 

 This, however, I found to be of too hot a 

 nature for that soil ; so much so, as to cause 

 some of the potatoe-tops to burn up and die* 

 Had three loads of mould been put to each 

 load of dung, I am of an opinion forty-eight 

 thousand bushels of compost might have 

 been made, which would have produced a 

 much better crop of potatoes or any thing 

 else, bushel for bushel, than the dung in the 

 raw state. This quantity of compost would 

 have covered eighteen acres of land ; and I 

 am certain that there, or in any other coun- 

 try, manure prepared in a proper manner by 

 adding mould in the above proportion,/^. 



