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" lost. It is not a question of straw merely wetted ; 

 " but good long dung he esteems much more than that 

 ** quantity of short dung, which time will convert the 

 *' former to. Two loads of long, may become one of 

 " short ; but the two are much more valuable than the 

 *^one. Without ^y^e trenching plough, however y 

 " his opinion would be different. If long dung is plough- 

 " ed in, in the commoji manner, with lumps and bundles 

 ** sticking out at many places along every furrow, which 



ently. He depended only on accidental wetting, by rain through 

 spouts. I am in great hopes that he will resume the use of his ster- 

 corary, for its wonted purpose when he reads Mr. Quincy's account 

 of his success. I am persuaded Mr. Quincy will not deem it ne- 

 cessary, hereafter, to throw over his muck in the stercorary. Or, 

 at least, that he will try some thrown over, and someROt ; for com- 

 parison. 



Extract from Mr, Qidncy*s Letter. 



June 1, IS 14. 

 " As to the STERCORARY, I Can now affirm, from a most perfect 

 *' experiment, that, in the mode 1 have managed it, the inconveni- 

 " encies arising from keeping the manure in a cellar, or pit, and 

 " stated in your Memoirs, are wholly obviated. I have carted out, 

 " this year, between three and four hundred tons ; and there was 

 *' not one spade full dry rotted, or burnt ; but the whole mass was 

 " in as perfect a state, as could be wished. At least, so my work- 

 " men assured me. — As to that part which lay in the centre of the 

 " heap, ayid in the vicinity oj the luell, my principal farmer, a man 

 " of great judgment and experience, — said that he never saw any 

 " thing like it ; — that one load was worth /owr of the ordinary ma- 

 " nure made on the farm. — The repeated irrigation of the heap, has 

 " a tendency to circulate all its richness through every part. But 

 " in the winter, when this process of irrigation is supended, the par- 

 " tides settle ; and make the central mass extremely powerful.'* 



R.T. 



