Experiments on Manures. '^g 



proportion till you compleat your pile, which ought to be flat on 

 the top, and well covered with this tiirf or other rich dirt, fuf- 

 ficient to keep off the fun from the dung. This manure is fit 

 for ufe the next fpring; but if not wanted at tliattime, it will be 

 beftto make another heap of the fame, by ciitt-i-ng it down and 

 throwing it Avith ftiovel^ into another heap V by- this ^means 

 another fermentation takes place, and the whole is better mixed, 

 and is a very fine manure for wheat, corn or grafs. Great ad- 

 dition by this means is made to the quantity of your yard dung; 

 and by this means alfo, y<ju- prevent any lofs of your dung by 

 the moifture being' exhaled by the fun during the fummer ; you 

 have a clean cOW-yard, which being well littered abforbs the 

 dung and ftale of the cattle during the warm fcafon of the year, 

 and becomes fufficiently fine to cart out before winter. It is 

 th-e coftimon' praftice of farrrrers to 'tart- out their dung in the 

 felli'^and lay it on or near a piece of ground ;they propofe. to 

 till thfenext year"; it lies in that ftate^expbfcd tbt'he rains^ about 

 iix months, which muft wafh away much of its virtue. 



....;,.i?»^ M?^^\P.,£/ M-y^^-Mk^I^i/iW^^ Creeks a?id Swamps. 



Mud from the creeks on Lohg-Ifland and on the fea coafls 

 of fonle parts of Conneclicut,has'been made ufe of as a manure 

 with fuccefs in fome inftances, w^hen in others no benefit is expe- 

 rienced. This is owing to their ufing two kinds of mud. In 

 order to determine v.hich is fit for a manure, if you run a 

 paddle, or pole, into, tiie mud, and it fticks fo faft that it is 



