66 TRAVELS THROUGH 



as many as poffible. His quantity of tur- 

 neps he found depended entirely on the 

 dung he fpread for that crop ; for, where- 

 ever that was laid thickeft, there he obfer- 

 ved the turneps were largeft, which made 

 him very anxious to manure his turnep- 

 field thoroughly. For this purpofe he car- 

 ries into execution a method which he had 

 feen pradifed with fuccefs in Franche 

 Compte. It was, to colled:, through the 

 winter, all the dung made by the cattle, of 

 whatever kind, regularly, every week, and 

 to form it into a large compoft hill, mixing 

 earth, marie, peat, lime, fand, or what- 

 ever bodies could be procured for the pur- 

 pofe together, with all forts of rotten vege- 

 tables : the proportion is about half dung or 

 half earth, or marie. For this purpofe he 

 applied a ftifF loam, which he digs out of 

 a pit, and peat, which he gets at the dif- 

 tance of about a mile. This heap he makes 

 as large as poffible, and from the quantity 

 of it he calculates the fuccefs of the follow- 

 ing year's turneps. He fpreads about twenty 

 large loads of it on an acre, which manu- 

 ring, he thinks, lafts in good perfection for 

 four or five years. When I afked him if he 



did 



