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Account of a Stercorary^ on a large Scale, 



Read December 14, 1813. 



Belmonty December 8, 1813. 



Dear Sir, 



1 have received the enclosed letter from Josiah 

 QuiNCY, Esq. of Massachusetts ; which contains valu- 

 able information, on a subject interesting to all farm- 

 ers. Plis account of his Stercorary, is well worthy 

 our attention. I presume on his forgiveness, when I 

 request you to communicate that part of his letter, to 

 the society. I have a desire, on a personal account, 

 that any erroneous opinions of mine, should be correct- 

 ed. The opinions I venture to communicate, are al- 

 ways formed from the best information I can obtain ; 

 or from facts passing under my own observation. But 

 the experience of an individual, goes but a small way, 

 towards the establishment of a general truth. The 

 Stercoraries, I spoke of, in the page of our 1st vol. ci- 

 ted by Mr. Quiiicy, were on a m.uch smaller scale, 

 than the one he has, in a most spirited manner, brought 

 into operation, and most promising use. Many with 

 whom I have conversed, have corroborated my asser- 

 tions, by similar facts known to them. But Mr. Q^uhi' 

 cy has remedied one evil, attendant on close reposito- 

 ries of dung ; and even on some open ones ; — the dry- 

 rot ; which is a kind of spontaneous combustion. 

 None of those I mention with disapprobation, were 



