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heap, and there suffered to grow 

 sensibly hot to the hand, as it usu- 

 ally will in twenty or thirty hours : 

 Then being spread again, and cool- 

 ed, it IS thrown upon the kiln, to be 

 dned crisp without scorching. If 

 these diiections be followed, the 

 malt will aUvays be good. 



" Toe method of malting Indian 

 corn, or Virginia wheat, is much 

 less laborious. For, ifthis corn be 

 huried iwo or three inches deep in 

 the earth, and covered with the 

 loose mould, in ten or twelve days 

 time the corn will sprout, and ap- 

 pear like a green held ; at which 

 time being taken up, and washed 

 or fanned from the dirt, it is imme- 

 diately committed to the kiln, and 

 by this means becomes good malt." 



MALT DUST, the dust which 

 falls from the kiln, while malt is 

 drying. Repeated experiments 

 made by Europeans, have estab- 

 lished the credit of this dust as a 

 manure for stiff loams and clays. A 

 good dressing of it has been found 

 to increase a crop of barley as 

 much as hfty per cent, and wheat 

 still more. I'he quantity used is 

 from thirty to sixty bushels peracre, 

 according to circumstances. It is 

 used mostly, or only, as a top dres- 

 sing. It exerts its strength so sud- 

 denly as to be nearly exhausted with 

 one crop. It should not be sown 

 together with winter wheat,but up- 

 on it in December or January fol- 

 lowing : For if it be sown early, it 

 will exert its strength too soon, and 

 bring the wheat forward too tast,as 

 has been proved by experiments. 

 For barley, this dressing should be 

 sown with the seed and harrowed 

 in. A small dressing of this manure 



on grass land, mightily increases the 

 vegetation, and the sweetness of 

 the grass. 



Maltsters should carefully preserve 

 this precious manure In someplace 

 where it will not contract dampness. 

 It may be of use to farmers in their 

 neighbourhood: But it cannot be- 

 come a manure of general use, the 

 wliole quantity that is made being 

 so small. 

 MANGEL WURTZELL. See 



Beet. 



MANURE, any kind of substance 

 suitable to be laid on land to in- 

 crease its fertility. 



Manures contribute several ways 

 to the producing of this effect : Ei- 

 ther by increasing the quantity of 

 vegetable food in the soil — or by 

 preparing the nourishment already 

 coiitaiiied in the soil to enter the 

 roots of plants — or by enlarging the 

 vegetable pasture in which roots 

 spread and seek their food — or by 

 attracting the food of vegetables 

 from the air. Some of the manures 

 increase fruitfulness in all these 

 ways, particularly the dung of ani- 

 mals, rotted vegetabh'S, 6ic. Other 

 manures perform each office, ex- 

 cepting the hrst : And some have 

 no other immediate effect besides 

 opening and loosening the soil : But 

 even these last kinds may some- 

 times be used to great advantage. 

 Inhere are different ways of or- 

 dering and managing manures, ac- 

 cording to their different natures. 

 Some are to be applied to land 

 without alteration, or mixing ; the 

 rest to be prepared by compound- 

 ing and fermentation : Some are 

 suitable for stiff and some for light 

 soils ; Some to be mixed in the soil 



