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the hogs mix with the muck, further enriched by their own 

 droppings, thereby converting an otherwise worthless mass 

 into an invaluable fertilizer, both for present effect and perma- 

 nency. 



The soil of a greater part of the farms in this county, is 

 sandy and gravelly, rightly termed "hungry." We farmers 

 want a kind of manure, the tendency of which should be to 

 check the porous nature of the soil ; to improve gradually, as 

 well as to bind together the component particles and give a 

 compactness to our light soil. To correct the evil, we have 

 only to add large portions of carbonaceous matters, such as de- 

 composed peat, charcoal dust, and in fact any other matter con- 

 taining carbon. 



I have, altogether, bought and saved two hundred bushels of 

 unleached ashes for admixture with vegetable matter. 



MiDDLEBOROUGH, NoV. 2, 1850. 



