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the yard, at least for most soils : but, that the 

 favourable circumstances of the conduct much ex- 

 ceeds the expence of it, for all soils, cannot be 

 doubted. 



A great recommendation of this farm-yard 

 system is the cheapness of thus manuring the land : 

 the fanner will find, that he can, in no other me- 

 thod, manure at nearly so small an expence. Pur- 

 chased manures come higher ; many of them much 

 more expensive, in proportion to their value. 



In some situations there are no manures of any 

 sort to be purchased ; in such, the farmers, if they 

 do not adopt such a plan as I have mentioned, 

 must give their land a poor chance ; for it must be 

 an admirable soil, or course of crops, to render 

 manure unnecessary. 



Thus far this article stands, as it did in the 

 former editions of this \vork ; but more modem 

 experiments and observations have given birth to a 

 different system, which must also be noticed here. 

 The question of using yard dung in a long or a 

 rotten state, was stated in the Calendar for last 

 month. The young farmer will act wisely to try 

 both methods carefully, in order that he may have 

 a degree of conviction which experiment alone can 

 yield : but such a trial demands particular atten- 

 tion, or it may deceive. Supposing two half acres 

 marked out, they should be manured, the one with 

 a certain portion of rotten dung, and the other 

 with that portion of the same sort long, which the 

 degree of freshness would demand in order to pro- 



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