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with urine, it should be conveyed in its strongest state to the tur- 

 nip land, or any other destined to receive it, in a lonv waggon in- 

 stead of a cart. These waggons should be made to open at the sides, 

 and the contents should be deposited in large heaps of ten or fifteen 

 loads each, with considerable elevation ; and it should be shook 

 abroad with as much care as a gardener takes in making a cucum- 

 ber bed. By these means a strong fermentation is excited, and 

 turning is unnecessary, and perhaps injurious. 



From these heaps placed at such a distance as to manure one acre, 

 it may be wheeled and spread for two-pence halfpenny per load. 

 In this method of hauling out dung, three waggons, four horses, 

 and five men are employed ; namely, one waggon and two men 

 loading in the yard, another waggon and two men unloading in the 

 field, and the third waggon and driver going backward and for-, 

 ward *. 



Wherever waste earth, mud from ponds, highway dirt, ashes, 

 &c. &c. can be procured, compost heaps should not be neglected j 

 these are best calculated for pasture land. 



Such a conduct will entitle him to a great produce, and keep 

 his land in good order ; but all this will not do without — 



4thly. A universal and regular rotation of crops. 



This I conceive to be the most prominent feature, in good farm- 

 ing, and if it were generally adopted, would increase the produce 

 of the land threefold. 



* In the application of dung the farmers of Somerset begin at the Wrong end. 

 It is almost the general practice to manure for the wheat crop, whereby the land 

 is made foul, and though there is a great burthen of straw, there is but little 

 corn. 



How much more beneficial would it be, to apply all the dung to potatoes, tur- 

 nips, &c. and to the artificial grasses, m.iking wheat the last crop in the course ? 

 It is also usual to manure the turnip land immediately before sowing, but I have 

 experienced great advantage, and more decided certainty of a crop, by manuring in 

 autumn on the stubbles, ploughing the same in, on a fleet furrow, and letting it 

 remain in that state during the winter months. 



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