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and children, in bafkets, which appears to 



be a ftrange wafte of labour, the rows of 



the vines being four or five feet afunder : 



wheel-barrows, or barrow-carts, might 



certainly be ufed very advantageouily. It 



is of confequence to have a dry feafon for 



the work of dunging, otherwife it is very 



badly performed. The women empty their 



bafkets in trenches dug for that purpofe, 



which is doing at the fame time, and others 



fpread it in the trench, and cover it with 



mould immediately. Thefe trenches vary; 



fometimes they are made along the centre 



of the intervals, at others they are dug 



between the plants : I could not learn what 



were the principles of the difference. The 



fort of dung they prefer moft, is cow-dung,, 



that is, the cleanings of the cow-houfes, 



which are v/ell littered with flraw or flubblc 



for that purpofe 5 horfe-dung is alfo ufed, 



but only on ftifFer foils ; the cleanings of 



iheep-pens, littered, is much valued, and 



they think the litter of as much confequence 



as the dung. The peafants, viue-drefTers, 



inhabitants of villages, and, in fhort, every 



body that keeps a fingle cow, takes care of 



the manure, forming it regularly into a heap 



for 



