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them in good condition, without any other food ; makes 

 a large quantity of excellent manure, and a fine dry feed- 

 ing yard. As opportunity can be found, we cart marl, 

 fuller's earth, clay, and any good soil that is convenient, 

 into this yard, which being mixed with the stalks, and 

 straw, or any thing else, penning the cattle on it through 

 the winter and summer, instead of penning on the field, 

 in the common way, we have a large quantity of manure 

 to go out in the fall, and next winter ; it is put into the 

 field, in the intermediate rows, between the rows of marl, 

 as far as it will go, and they all get mixed in the cultiva- 

 tion. We also convert the scouring of our ditches, the 

 head-lands of the fields, and all waste-ground that we can, 

 into manure, by carting litter from the woods, yard ma- 

 nure, or litter, &c. &c. and mixing with them ; so that I 

 can nearly, or quite, now, accomplish making farm-yard 

 and this kind of manure, sufficient to go over my whole 

 hundred acres, annually. For the two last years, I have 

 made more manure than I could accomplish or effect 

 carrying out, though I have manured from ten to twenty 

 acres more than my hundred, each year, with part marl 

 and part farm-yard, but not the whole with both, as I 

 hope to be able to do in future ; but it will be necessary 

 to increase my carting force to effect it, and I clearly see, 

 I can raise sufficient manure for the purpose ; heretofore 

 I have manured my corn-ground, fifty acres, with marl, 

 and my fallow with part farm-yard manure, and part marl, 

 as mentioned before ; so that you will perceive the im- 

 provement made on my soil has not been effected by 

 marl alone, but in conjunction with farm-yard manure, 

 clover, and plaster, and by making it a point to manure 

 with something all the ground I put into cultivation ; so 



