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outside bricks a!! around receive very liltie ailvau- 

 taire i'roni tiie fire, and are never burnt ; but heinfr 

 on l!ie outside liiey are easily removed, and are 

 reserved lor the outside casinfr ol" the next clamp 

 that, may be built ; iind being then turned with 

 their unbaked sides inwards, some ol'them become 

 available. On takinii!; down tiie clamp, ihe bricks 

 are assorted, in London, into three separate par- 

 cels or varieties, according; to their perli^ciion and 

 goodness. Those that are burnt very hard but 

 have not lost their figure or shape, are called 

 malms, or malm-Cacings, or malm-paviors, and are 

 used (or facing good work ; or li)r paving, lor 

 which their hardness makes them peculiarly suita- 

 ble. The main body of the clamp produces well 

 burnt and regularly Ibrmed bricks called stocks, 

 vj'Ah which the ijenerality ol" houses are built ; anti 

 such as are iniperiectly burnt, and are soir, are 

 called pl(tce bricks. These last are used lor inside 

 partitions, backing walls that are to be plastered 

 u|)on, and other work that is neither exposed to 

 the ej-e or the weather. These several varieties 

 of brick have each a separate price, the best being 

 worth almost twice as much as the worst. If the 

 fire has not been carclully attended to, and has 

 been permitted to get too violent, a few of the 

 lower bricks will become distorted by partial fu- 

 eion, and may fuse and adhere torrether, when 

 they are called clinkers, and are useless lor build- 

 infJT purposes, but tbrm an excellent road material. 



high authorities in explanation, and even in some 

 respects advancing o|)inioiis at variance with theirs. 



But, sir, as the published reports of those emi- 

 nent :nen's labors rarely liill into the hands of prac- 

 tical farmers, and are but impcrlectly understood 

 i)y them, I am induced to step forward, and en- 

 deavor to express my ideas upon a subject so im- 

 portant to agriculturists, in a plain manner, and 

 not liable to be misunderstood by |)ractical men, 

 to whom t!ie Ibllowing hints may prove more ac- 

 ceptable, from being the result of practical expe- 

 rience, and nottbunded on theory alone. 



Although I address myself to you, sir, at the 

 present moment, 1 may in lact be considered as 

 attempting to explain my sentiments to the numer- 

 ous, intelligent, and highly respectable tenantry 

 upon your extensive A^or^jZA" estates, men whose, 

 liberality will, I am convinced, excuse me in any 

 harsh expression which may drop from my pen 

 while attempting to deliver my sentiments upon a 

 subject with which their respective interests are 

 inseparably connected. Some men, who have 

 had tlie advantage of superior information, will 

 consider the greater part of the Ibllowing ol>3er?a- 

 tions as extraneous, unnecessary, and perhaps un- 

 called lor; and to such men they actually are so : 

 but they will please to recollect, there are many 

 very meritorious occupiers of land, who hav-p: not 

 had the same means ol obtaining information Upon 

 liiricultural subjects, and that to such persons the 



[n this country the names of bricks are dilferent, 'following hints may be of service; and I may be 

 but derived li"om the same source, being called ', allowed the privilege of saying, without much 

 hard burnt or arch bricks, body bricks, and soft or j 't-ar of contradiction, that it sometimes happens, 

 salmon bricks ; though this last name is generally j where llirmers have, by means of precept, exam- 

 altered by workmen into sammy. The goodness ' pic, or dint of experience, obtained a competent 



of a brick is derived from its regular shape and ap- 

 pearance, its tenacity and hardness, its sound, and 

 by its not absorbing water, or being aH'ected by 



or even superior agricultural knowled<je, they do 

 not always practise to the extent of their informa- 

 tion. A monitor is a wholesome physician for the 



frost. The tenacity and hardness are judired of ;./)'a!7/i€s rf human nature, though not always an 

 by striking one brick against another, or lettinir acceptable one^ 



them fall upon stone pavement. Good bricks 

 should have a sound approaching to that of a me- 

 tal when so treated, and they ought to ring, and 



I will now, Sir, enter upon my subject, and will, 

 with your permission (with a view to ease and 

 freedotn in expression) consider myself as address- 



bear a very hard blow with the edije of the trowel, ! ing my remarks to j'our tenantry 



belbre they divide. If they readily break with a I will not attempt to enter upon the wide range 



blow, or crumble to dust by a fall, such bricks are 

 of the soft or sammy kind, and are unfit Ibr intro- 

 duction into a heavy wall, particularly on the out- 

 side of it, as they will be sure to be attacked bv 

 frost, and crumble to pieces. The absorbency of 



ol manures generally, but confine my remarks 

 more /Jflr/iCi//flr/]/ to what has been aptly termed 

 the Farmer's Sheet Anchor^ Farm Yard IV] a- 



N U R E. 



My observation and experience justify me in 



bricks is judged of by vvei»ihing them in the dry stating, that the husbandinij of li^rm yard manure 



state, and then soaking them in water for an hour, 

 and weighing them again. Those bricks that 

 take up the greatest quantity of water, are the 

 least fit for use, when they are to be exposed to its 

 action. The average weight of a sound and dry 

 ijondon stock bricK, is four pounds fill een ounces 

 averdnpois. 



ON THE HUSBANDING OF FAR>I-YARD MA- 

 MURE, AND ON OTHER RURAL SUBJECTS. 



To Thos. Wm. Coke, Esq. 



Honored Sir — After the minute inquiries into 

 (he subject of manures, and the co[)ious elucida- 

 tion thereof upon chymical principles, carried on jdish turnips, or some other rich food, and the re^- 

 and developed by able philosophical men, it will fuse and waste of such food tiirown about the 

 appear presumptuous in me (a humble individual, 'yard, increase the value of the manure; it also 

 having no pretension to scientific knowledge) thus j attracts the pigs to the yard. Those industriouf 

 takiuix up the pen, and attempting to tbilow such I and useful animals root the straw and dung about 

 Vol. VII-51 



IS (generally speaking) either imperfectly under- 

 stood, or not eufficienily attended to in the county 

 of Norfolk. 



The principal error in the common method of 

 manufacturing farm-yard <lung, in Norfolk, ori- 

 ginates with the prevalent ciisiom of keeping the 

 dung arising from dilTcrent descriptions oi'animals 

 in separate heaps or departments, and appl)-iiig 

 the same to the land without intermixture, and in 

 an improper state. 



It is customary to keep the fattening neat cattle 

 in yards by themselves, and the manure arising 

 from them is of good quality, because the excre^ 

 ment of fat cattle is richer than that of lean ones: 

 fattening cattle are fed with oil-cake, corn, Swe^ 



