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ther dung should be employed fresh or rotten ; 4. The 

 mode and time of application ; 5. The depth at which it 

 ought to be put; and, 6. Its price in the neighbourhood of 

 the metropolis. 



1. Dr Coventry has given the following estimate of the 

 quantity of dung that may be procured from different crops, 

 on land that will produce seven Scotch bolls, or twenty- 

 eight Winchester bushels- of wheat, per English acre. 



. TODS. 



By turnips, cabbages, and fallow crops, when applied 



to the feeding of cattle, 



By clover, grass, or herbage, hay, &c. first year, - 6 



By ditto, if mowed, second do. - 5 



By ditto, if pastured, second do. 5 



By pulse crops, as beans, &c. part of their seed being 



used on the possession by live stock, _ _ 51 



By pulse crops, when the seed is sold, 5 

 By white or corn crops, as wheat, barley, &c. on an 



average of the whole, 4, 



It is no wonder, therefore, that green crops should be 

 recommended as sources of fertility, producing proportion- 

 ally much more manure, besides the other advantages with 

 which they are attended ; at the same time, the dung pro- 

 cured from the herbage, pulse, and hoed crops, is stated in 

 the above table rather under the mark, and that from the 

 straw of the corn crops fully high, in proportion to the 

 other ; the object being, to shew the comparative advan- 

 tages of the different kind of crops, in respect of the ma- 

 nure they respectively afford. 



2. Mr Rennie of Kinblethmont proposes, that dung, 



J'hen taken from the dung-court, should be carried to the 



field intended to be dunged, and then laid into dunghills, 



