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duce in rotting the quantity so carried in a rotten 

 state : this cannot be prescribed, for it depends on 

 the state of both dunghills at the moment. This 

 is one way of trying it, but a still more accurate 

 method is to litter two sties, each of 1O hogs fed 

 equally, or two sheds of four fat bullocks, with a i 

 certain weight of trussed straw,, and to use the 

 dung of one fresh and of the other turned up and 

 rotten ; the experiment terminating at a time when 

 the long dung can be used ; the rotten may wait, 

 but the long cannot. 



Should the farmer determine on the older me- 

 thod, he turns and mixes his yard-dung as before 

 described. If on the new way, he has nothing M 

 do this month, but is to wait till he wants it for ! 

 turnip crop. 



FEEDING OR MOWING GRASS-LAND. 



As this is the usual season of turning cattle to 

 grass, and consequently the time of determining 

 what fields are to be fed and what mown ; our 

 young farmer has some circumstances to attend to 

 which may demand consideration. For instance, 

 is alternate feeding and mowing better than to keep 

 the scythe out of pastures and the cattle out of 

 mowing grounds ? Mr. Goring here offers a va- 

 luable remark : 



" I do not even admit that grass-land should be 

 mown and fed alternately ; it is certainly the way 

 to go on the longer without manure, and as cer- 

 tainly the way to ruin (parl pas&u) both fields in , 

 the end. In order to maintain its proper quantity 



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