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" In Switzerland the farmers 

 consider liquid manure as the most 

 efficacious, and after the dung is 

 fermented, they dilute it in water, 

 and the liquid alone is carried to 

 the field, and scattered over it. 

 The straw that remains, after the 

 dung is thus washed, is applied as 

 manure for potatoes. 



The Hon. Richard Peters, of 

 Penn. is opposed to the use of un- 

 fermented manures. In a letter 

 to Josiah Quincy, Esq. published 

 in the Agricultural Repository, 

 vol. iv. page 328, Mr. Peters ob 

 serves, " 1 insist that all the hot 

 muck ferments over violently in 

 the earth. My opponents say, 

 (and so does Sir H. I believe,) 

 that the earth checks fermenta- 

 tion. And so it may to a certam 

 degree. But strawy muck cannot 

 be rtg.ilarly spread. The animal 

 tnaiter is not mixed with the straw, 

 but Hesin masses par se ; this over 

 ferments, and throws up your 

 crops, in bunches or spots, over 

 luxuriantly ; and it lays, smuts, or 

 mildews. The earth prevents fer- 

 mentation in the straw ; and this 

 dry rots and becomes a caput mor- 

 tuum, 1 have experienced this 

 effect over and over again. 1 

 think reasonably fermented dung 

 goes further. All the straw and 

 additional matter is impregnated, 

 and, being decomposed, spreads 

 with the animal ejections more 

 equally, and to infinitely better 

 advantage, assisting your crops in 

 more points, and operating equally 

 and more efficiently on the whole." 



DUNGHILLS, heaps of ma- 

 nure laid up to ferment, consisting 

 of dung and earth, together with 



lime, or marie, and any animal or 

 vegetable substances, which easily 

 putrify and consume. 



It would be well if every farmer 

 had some of them preparing, to be 

 carted out in autumn, or to lie two 

 summers, when it is found conven- 

 ient. He would avail himself of 

 much manure that might be col- 

 lected between spring and fall ; 

 for, in the summer, the crop3 on 

 the ground must prevent carting 

 it ; so that it should be preserved 

 in the best manner to prevent 

 waste. And this can in no way be 

 so well prevented, as by mixing it 

 with other substances. 



Farmers should have such dung- 

 hills, some at their barns, or cow- 

 yards, one at a hogsty, when 

 swine are shut up, and another not 

 too far from the back door of a 

 house. They may be tended, and 

 augmented at odd times, when no 

 other business stands in the way. 

 That at the back door, especially, 

 may be very easily made up, of a 

 variety of rich and fertilizing in- 

 gredients, besides dung; such as 

 the scrapings of the yard after 

 rain ; soot and ashes ; shells, lime 

 and bones ; the sweepings of the 

 kitchen ; oil dregs,, and any fat 

 things ; woollen rags ; bloody wa- 

 ter, in which meat or fish has been 

 washed ; greasy water ; suds ; 

 ashes, although the lie has been 

 drawn from them; old useless 

 brine; urine; and, in short, any 

 animal or even vegetable sub- 

 stance, that has not too much acid. 

 Or, even acids, if they be over- 

 balanced by plenty of alkaline 

 substances. 



To prevent the heaps being too 



