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J may raise on his farm, especially in the yards, 

 I stables, stalls, sties, &c. And this is, whether it 

 I should be removed in a fresh, long, strawy state, or 

 I turned over to ferment and rot ; or carted first to 

 I a compost or heap) in order for turning over and 

 | mixing, and for keeping till more rotten still. 

 There are many variations in management, for 

 which some better reasons ought to be given than 

 we commonly meet with. A very common method 

 is, to leave the dung where made till all winter feed- 

 ing is over, and then to turn it up where it lies 

 into heaps, and leave it till wanted to cart on for 

 turnips. Others, who intend it for wheat, having 

 turned up a border or hedgreen in the field that is 

 to be sown with wheat, cart the muck on to the 

 earth so prepared, and afterwards, sooner or later, 

 mix them together, and before the wheat-seeding 

 cart it on to the land. If no border of this sort, 

 they make a heap of it, which is afterwards turned 

 over. These are the more general methods. Some 

 few, thinking it beneficial to have the dung as 

 rotten as possible, keep it over year, as they term 

 it, and turn a second time. It is evident that these 

 several methods are founded on certain ideas, that 

 rotting is beneficial, and that more is gained in 

 quality than is lost in quantity by that operation. 

 This is a very important question, and well de- 

 serves many careful experiments to ascertain the 

 real fact ; but unfortunately the number of these 

 hitherto made is so few, that they have not done 

 much more than excite some attention to the point, 



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