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than Scotchmen how to manage a guinea 

 for profit. 



Now, from the observations I made on 

 these two crops, if the dung which I used 

 on the potatoes had been worked up into 

 compost, with four loads of earth to each 

 load of dung, I should, with one hundred 

 loads of such compost, have had double the 

 quantity of potatoes, and four hundred loads 

 of compost to have put to some other use. 

 I have every reason to believe that one of 

 the most essential things in agriculture is in 

 the preparation of dung, and that it will 

 add more to the present produce than any 

 thing in general use yet tried, in any part 

 of the globe. I shall, however, forbear 

 giving directions in this work for the mak- 

 ing of compost, having done that in my 

 EXPERIENCED FARMER, and thinking the 

 method there prescribed to be the most 

 proper I have seen either tried or prac- 

 tised. 



In the calculation of the barley-crop, I 

 feave given twenty bushels. The manner 





