5^ Experments on Manures. 



done to corn by grub worms and other infefts. Mr. JoJtpK 

 Glover, aperfonin my neighborhood, informs me, that lall year, 

 with two hogs kept in a pen the whole year, by throwing in the 

 pen the drift fea-weed, turf, rich dirt and green w^eeds, as often 

 as occafion required, he made twenty ox-cart loads or tons of 

 eood manure, which he computes to be worth twenty dollars, 

 equal to his two hogs when fatted ; fo that his pork coft him 

 nothing, except his trouble of tending his pen. An equal 

 quantity and perhaps more manure, may be made by hogs in a 

 Country, remote from the fea, by putting in the pen, the frefh 

 grafs growing on flats in rivers, (which not being impregnated 

 with falts, will fooner rot than fea-weed) and by adding turf 

 or rich dirt, and any vegetables not fit for fodder. 



Of Compoll made -with Yard-Dung and Turf. 



The turf in ftreets where hogs and catde run, is very richi 

 and if plouged up in the fpring and put into heaps like fmall 

 hay cocks, by abforbing the nitre in the air, and by a fermenta- 

 tion of the roots of the grafs which takes place, it becomes a 

 good manure, efpecially for wheat. This turf, or any other turf 

 which abounds with the roots of grafs, is ufed in making a 

 compoft with cow-yard dung : the dung is carted from the 

 yard as foon as you have done foddering your catde— you firll 

 make a bed of this turf, of about ten loads, if you mean to make 

 aheap of one hundred tons ; on this bed you cart ten loads of 

 'duno^ then cover the fame with four or five loads of turf, made 

 fine by ploughing and loading it in the cart^ you go on in that 



