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Stable-dung, if ufed as a fimple, fliould 

 not be applied in too -rank a ftate, nor 

 mould it be too much fermented. It 

 mould generally lie in a heap for two or 

 three weeks ; during which time it mould 

 be turned once or twice. A ton of it in 

 this ftate, is worth three that has been 

 ufed in the hot-bed, and is a year old. 

 This manure, and indeed dung of any 

 kind, when applied as fimples, mould ne-. 

 ver be carried from the heap to the ground, 

 till it is to be digged in j as, by its expo- 

 iure to the air, the virtues evaporate, and it 

 is the lefs effectual. 



The necellity of the inftant application 

 of fea-weed after landing, if ufed as a 

 limple, is even greater than the above ; as 

 it inftantly corrupts, and its juices flow 

 downwards, and are loft. If this manure 

 is ufed as a compound, the heap wherein 

 it is compounded mould be more frequently 

 turned on its account ; that none of the 

 juices may be loft, -but that the other part 

 of the compoft may abforb them. 



Horfe-dung, and the dung of iheep, 

 deer, rabbits, &c. are moft eligible for cold, 

 \vet foils ; and all thefe, or any of thefe in 



compoft 





