3/4 SOILING. [JUNE. 



as it is very material that all which is brought home 

 should be immediately distributed to the stock. A 

 good farmer will have been attentive to secure as 

 ample a provision of litter as possible ; if he has 

 not reserved his wheat-stacks to be threshed at this 

 season, which usually gives the best price, at the 

 same time that it provides far littering at a season 

 the best calculated for making dung. That sum- 

 mer is that season, there are several reasons for ad- 

 mitting. 



Those farmers who have given particular atten- 

 tion to the state of farm-yard manure, as it is made in 

 winter and in summer, and to the efficacy of both, 

 can scarcely have failed to remark, that the superi- 

 ority of the dung arising from any sort of stock, 

 commonly fed, in summer, is very great to such as 

 is made in winter from stock no better fed. The 

 manure yielded by fat hogs, and by beasts fed on 

 oil-cake, is of such a quality that the season docs 

 not demand attention ; but with all other stock I 

 have great reason to believe, from many observa- 

 tions, that a farmer should make as large a reserve 

 of straw, stubble, &c. for littering in summer, as 

 possible. 



Cattle, when soiled upon any kind of green food, 

 as tares, clover, chicory, lucerne, or grass, make 

 so large a quantity of urine as to demand the 

 greatest quantity of litter ; the degree of tin's 

 moisture in which their litter is kept, while the 

 :KT is hot, much assists a rapid fermentation, 

 2nd great quantities of carbonic acid and hydrogen 



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