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are turned out to pasture, would collect a heap of 

 several loads in a season, ready for your wheat, or grass 

 grounds in autumn. If you should cart on, and cover 

 your heap occasionally, with a load or two at a time, 

 of rich earth, (where it could be spared,) it would 

 commix with the manure by fermentation, and be- 

 come rich compost, and thus increase your quantity 

 and your wealth. If you stable your horses occa- 

 sionally, or generally, in sjummer, let this manure 

 also be conveyed to your heap, it will improve its 

 quality, by being mixed with the other manure and 

 the earths. Four good loads of this manure, will 

 dress in the hole an acre of Indian-corn, or potatoes, 

 and upon an average double your crop ; this is no 

 small advantage ; and a careful farmer will not neg- 

 lect it. Ten loads of such manure, spread upon your 

 grass grounds in autumn, may be considered equal 

 to 15 or 20 loads of farm-yard manure, laid on in the 

 spring, especially if the season in the spring, or sum- 

 mer following, should be dry. The best form for 

 constructing your farm-yard, either with or without 

 sheds, and the best mode of preparing the farm-yard 

 in autumn, to receive the stock for winter, and col- 

 lect the greatest quantity of manure, I shall treat of 

 at large under the article Stock. 



Indian-Corn. 



The season is now past for planting your Indian- 

 corn, and it is to be hoped that you have ploughed 

 deep, upon a well spread coat of manure, or planted 

 your corn with a shovel full of rich manure in the 

 hill, or rolled your corn in plaster of Paris, or put in 

 a large spoonful of plaster into each hill ; but if you 

 have neglected all these sureties for a good crop, you 

 may correct your error in this month of June, by 

 dressing your corn-hills at the several hoeings, with a 

 handful of plaster, or of live, or leached ashes, which 

 will greatly benefit your crop ; particularly upon 



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