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uhder the furrow, will continue there twenty years. The bell 

 ufe made of this dry drifted weed, is to cover your wheat as 

 foon as fown ; this anfwers a good purpofe, in keeping the 

 wheat warm in the winter, and prevents its being killed by 

 frofts. It anfwers a good purpofe as a litter for horfes, which 

 being mixed with the horfe dung and trod to pieces, and thrown 

 out into a heap, is found to anfwer a good purpofe. A few 

 horfes in the courfe of a winter, will make large quantities ©f 

 this manure. The drifted fea-weed from creeks and bays, if 

 taken green and put under the furrow, anfwers the purpofe of 

 a manure, in proportion to that raked from the bottom of creeks 

 and bays, as about two loads to one. It is generally carried into 

 cow yards for litter, there being trod to pieces by the cattle, and 

 abforbing their dung, adds much to thc-quantity, and become;* 

 a good manure. But it is ufed to the greateft advantage in 

 hog-pens. The general mode of preparing this manure, is as 

 follows : Your hog-pen is made without a floor, contiguous ta 

 a hog-houfe or fhed, where the hogs may be dry whenever 

 they pleafe ; the pen fhould be hollowing in the middle, fo that 

 rain will run into it and ftand for fome time, by which means 

 the fea weed is kept wet and wafhed from the falts, and fooner 

 rot than otherwife it would do. This fea-weed is thrown into 

 the pen as often as neceffary, with turf or rich dirt and any 

 kind of green weeds ; very large quantities of manure may be 

 made in this way, which is much better than cow-yard dung, 

 efpecially for dunging corn in the holes, as it prevents the injury 



