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SECTION III. 



MANURE, 



X HE firft confideration which moft naturally occurs to 

 an aclive intelligent and improving farmer upon this fub- 

 jeft, is that of preparing and fitting his foil for the recep- 

 tion of fuch animal, and vegetable matter, as in the courfe 

 of his leafe he may be able to colleil for improving, and 

 annually recruiting his exhaufting lands : previoufly hollow- 

 draining the wet heavy parts of his farm, and afterwards 

 applying the alteratives of chalk, clay, marie, fand, or 

 gravel, which (though at the higheft expence flated in the 

 journal) will not difcourage him, feeing in confequence 

 thereof the land becomes more tra£lable and fruitful, and 

 which with proper management, he knows it will be found 

 to retain for a great length of time. 



The blue and white chalky clay, which is applied fuccefs- 

 fully, under fuch different circumflances through this 

 county, fliould (in order to prepare it' for an immediate and 

 intimate union with the foil) be flubbed and left expofed to 

 the aclion of the air, fometime before it is carried out, and 

 fpread upon the land. 



In the application of fand, gravel, or any filicious mix- 

 ture to the heavy wet lands, care fhould be taken to apply it in 

 quantities fufficient to divide, and completely to overcome 

 the natural adhefion of the foil ; for if there is too fmall a 

 quantity ufed, a dircdly oppofite effeifl will follow, and the 

 land (on the principle of mortar) will acquire a difpofition 

 to run and cement together j thus inftead of the tough 



clayey 



