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importance of this branch of hufbandry is 

 fo great, that it can never be fufficiently in- 

 culcated. The great numbers of cattle I 

 keep, make me an immenfe quantity of 

 dung, and the fpreading this dung on the 

 fields, enables me to keep yet greater num- 

 bers of cattle, at the fame time that my 

 corn crops yield proportioned to the ma- 

 nure. Upon my finding that the operation 

 of manuring was the fame in France as I 

 had before experienced in the Weft Indies, 

 I gave the utmoft attention to railing it in 

 quantities. My fyflem for this purpofe was 

 purfuing the method which the fugar- 

 planters ufe, that of mixing marl, loam, 

 and other earths, with the dung, as faft as 

 it is made, in penns or hills : I have ftand- 

 ings for all my horned cattle, and penns for 

 the hogs and meep; near the door of the 

 former, the dunghill, formed by cleaning 

 the houfes, is made, and along-fide the 

 dung-hill, I have a long riclge of marl or 

 turf, which a man works fine in the refer- 

 voirs of ui'inc, and, when fine and well im- 

 pregnated, mixes it with the dung as it 

 , comes out of the flables -, by this means the 

 quantity is greatly increafed, and the qua- 



lity 



