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SECT. 3. Manuring. 



DUNG is principally applied towards raifing potatoes, 

 in fome inflances for grain of all the different forts; 

 but to raife potatoes, every effort is ufed by the beft 

 farmers to increafe its quantity, and even the little far- 

 rSeVs are very induftrious in this particular, increafing 

 its quantity by many additional fubflances, earth, bog, 

 clay, &c. according to their foils, and the opportu- 

 nities they may have of obtaining them. For bog or 

 moor a mixture of clay is excellent, although it .fhould 

 cdrTtain fome ftones, which aifift in compreffing and 

 dividing the boggy foils. For clay or gravel a mixture 

 of bog is very well adapted, to correct the clofenefs of 

 the one, or the fharpnefs of the other; but the great 

 error in the management of dunghills feems to be their 

 improvident fituation, by which the rich water that 

 flows from them, is loft. The mode adopted by a far- 

 mer in this county deferves to be noticed and followed; 

 his dunghill being placed on a rifing ground, he mads 

 a cut from it, with two or three flops, to fave the water 

 in its defcent; above thefe flops he always threw in a 

 quantity of earth, which being faturated with the moif- 

 ture from the dung, he removed it, and again filled the 

 trench. This man's attention to every branch of hut- 

 bandry was directed by equal fagacity, and, from being 

 A a a labourer, 



