FEB.] COMPOSTS. QQ 



them too long before they are laid upon the land ; 

 otherwise they will be much wasted, and their best 

 parts evaporated. 



ee Composts prepared in this manner need not 

 be turned, or at most not above once. If the fer- 

 mentation is observed to abate too soon, make 

 holes with a pole, from the top almost to the 

 bottom of the heap, upon which throw urine, 

 or the running of a dunghill, which will fill 

 the holes, force through the whole substance of 

 the compost, and soon complete the fermenta- 

 tion. 



" Such a compost, by duly proportioning the 



I ingredients, may be made to suit any sort of land, 



and is excellent for meadow or pasture grounds. 



A way to improve these, is to cut them five 



or six inches deep with the five-coultered cutting- 



' plough, or scarificator, which cuts the surface 



in slips four or five inches asunder, but does not 



f raise or turn them. This cutting of the roots 



lof the grass, and the manure laid on at the 



| same time, sinking into these incisions made 



my the coulters, causes an improvement in the 



[quality of the 'herbage, and also makes such 



[grass-grounds produce much more than they did 



[before. But here it is to be rioted, that cutting 



[the ground first, and then laying on the manure, 



(-makes a greater improvement than manuring 



! first and then cutting ; and both are superior 



f to manuring and not cutting ; all which have 



rbeen proved by experiments. The cutting- 



H 2 plough 



