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IVoollen Rags arc the only artificial manure ufed irt 

 this diftriiS to any extent. Befides, what are procu- 

 red in the county, ccniiderable quantities are pur- 

 chafed from Leicefterfliire, and the other neighbour- 

 ing counties. They cofl: about 4 s. the hundred 

 weight, befides 2 s. for chopping. Six hundred 

 weight is generally applied to an acre. This kind 

 of manure is generally ufed as a preparation for a 

 crop of barley, and is found to anfwer well. 



Compojl Dunghills are feldom made, the dung be- 

 ing in general carried direA from the flraw-yard to 

 the field. 



When comports are made, they confifl of farm- 

 yard dung, and the fcourings of ditches, or foil col- 

 ledled on the fides of roads, together with a certain 

 quantity of lime. The farmers who follow this 

 praftice, confider the extraordinary expence, and 

 trouble, as fully compenfated, by the benefit, which 

 the lands receive, from the addition of the rich earth, 

 and rotten vegetables, which are thus procured, and 

 which operate more powerfully in confequence of 

 the lime, with which they are mixed. 



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which it is conceived, there muft be a continuation of the different flratas of earth be- 

 fore defcribed ; though inftances have been known where marl of this kind has been 

 bred, and produced, by the continual accumulation of putrified vegetable fubftances par- 

 ticularly in low fwaropy fituations covered, or, furrounded by trees, and wood which is 

 the cafe with the pond here mentioned. — An experiment is iptended to be made this 

 autumn in Boughton-park, by laying various proportions of the two marls upon differ- 

 ent kinds of foil, and in different fituations; the effects of which, at any future time 

 will be very willingly communicated to the Board of Agriculture, fhould fuch a cir- 

 cumftance be thought woithy of notice. If this kind of drefling is found to exceed or 

 even to equal the effects of common manure, it may prove an important circumftancc 

 as no doubt great improvements may be made upon meadow and pafture ground, where 

 fuch affiftance can be procured. It would certainly be worth while, to procure a marl 

 ioring iron, to examine the firuta of all the meadows, and low fpots in the county. 



