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for fale, and it is bought by the proprietors 

 of the vineyards at fo much a bafket. 

 They reckon that from five to eight hun- 

 dred bafkets are necefTary for an acre of 

 vines : I favv the bafkets, and reckon them 

 to hold about half a bufhel ; fo that eight 

 hundred bafkets are four hundred bumels, 

 which I take to be about twelve or thirteen 

 common farmers cart-loads ; and this ma- 

 nuring is repeated every four or five years. 

 The price per bafket varies according to 

 the fort of dung and litter, but it generally 

 comes to five or fix {hillings an hundred, 

 delivered in the vineyard 5 if very good, to 

 feven or eight, and fometimes more . has 

 been given. 



Making dung is fo much attended to 

 throughout all the wine country, that every 

 means are taken to increafe the quantity. 

 All cattle are kept in houfes as much as 

 poffible, and littered ftraw is ufed for this $ 

 alfo ftubble, which is pulled up by hand; 

 fubbifh wood from foreft land, leaves of 

 trees fwept up, and fern from wafte traces; 

 every thing is applied to litter with themoft 

 unremitted attention : much cattle are kept, 

 eipecially cows, Thefe are fed by every 

 G 2 means 



