292 Account of a Stercorary. 



moistbire, introduced by irrigation, was decreased ; 

 the fermentation would be accelerated. The xvells^ 

 may be deeper than the bottom of the stercorai^y, 



I am truly yours, 

 " Richard Peters. 



Dr. James Mease. 



Secretary of the Philad, Agric Soc, 



Extract from Mr. Qidncy^s Letter ; dated, Bostoji^ 

 November 27, 1813. 



*' It is now more than a year, since I had the honour 

 of receiving from you some hints on the subject of a 

 Stercorary, having previously availed myself of 

 those contained in the first volume of your memoirs. 

 The result of my adoption of your hints has been even 

 greater than you promised. I have no question that the 

 saving of manure by a water-tight bottom, and a co- 

 vered stercorary, will pay me the expense of paving 

 and securing the bottom, the first year ; and yet the 

 scale on which I proceeded was not either very limited 

 or rigidly economical. There is, however, one point, 

 in which I ventured to deviate from your suggestions ; 

 — rather I had advanced so far in my plan, before I 

 received your cautionary letter, that I could not recede. 

 The result has not been according to your anticipation. 

 And as I have no doubt of the correctness of your opi- 

 nion, in the general, I think I owe it to you to state 

 the fyct of the difference in the result of my experi- 

 ment, and the causes of it. 



You warned me against a stercorary under my ham, 

 referring me to p. 153 of the 1st vol. in corroboration of 



