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to mingle with the other. Into which muft be caffc all ox dung, 

 cow dung,, hogs dung, and dung of fowls; all aflies, whether of 

 wood, or fea-coal ; the duft and fweepings of your yard and houfe -, 

 all weeds,! old litter,, rotten ftraw, and Ipare earth, which you can 

 get ; as alio the wafhing of ban-els, all foap fuds, water which meat 

 has been boil'd in, difh-water, and every fuch kind of thing, which 

 is now thrown down the common link, and render'd ufelefs : and' 

 for the more convenient performance of all this, there may be left a-*; 

 pretty large fquare hole, in the outward declivity of the arch whielii-) 

 covers the ftercorary. This hole mufl have a wooden door fitted to 

 it, which, lifting up and down, will, as occalion offers, not only 

 ferve for taking in the things above named, but, whenever more 

 moifture may be thought wanting, it will admit as much as is con- 

 venient, by being left open in rainy weather, and, as foon as fliut, 

 forbid the entrance of any more. The other door, \Vhich I ipoke of, 

 in one of the ends, is only to ferve for carrying out the dung, when 

 it is to be made ufe of. 



In fuch a ftercorary as is here defcribed, the charge is a trifle, notj 

 worth naming, in comparifon with the profit. The dungs and other- 

 things, incorporating, and fermenting thus together, mellowed, and 

 enriched by the fpirit of the urine, and unimpaired by the fun, rain, 

 or wind, attain an excellence, which is befl known by the prodi- 

 gious increafe they make in your crops ; and which proves demon- 

 ftratively, that one load thus managed, is of more effed: than twenty 

 after the common manner." 



We leave to experience to determine, whether a ll:ercorary with 

 only a fliade thrown over it, would not nearly anfwer all the ends 

 propofed by clofing it up, and have none of the dangers attending 

 the other. 



The method- of making lime is fufficiently knov/n. Its ufe and 

 application, as a manure, is all that appertains to our fubjeft. 



Liming of land, fays the author of the 'Englip Improver, is of 

 moft excellent ufe ; many barren parts of this kingdom being there-" 

 by brought to lb fertile a condition for bearing mod: forts of grain, 

 that as good wheat, barley, and peafe, as England yields, has, with 

 the help of that manure properly diftributed, been raifed upon land, 

 before not worth above a Ihilling or two an acre. He adds, that 

 twelve or fourteen quarters will lime an acre. Another writer 

 fays 160 bufhels. The difference of the land may require a difi^erent 

 proportion. .v jiai - 



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