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ter ; but then it is not richly ftored with ve- 

 getable food. Woollen rags anfwer both 

 purpofes very well, as they contain a great 

 quantity of mucilaginous juice, which ferves 

 equally well in nourifhing plants, and in 

 detaining moifture, 



THE compoft that appears to me to be 

 one of the fitted is mofs : for it is as im- 

 pervious to water as clay, nay perhaps 

 more fo j and as it is a vegetable, contains 

 more oil than any other that I know. This 

 reafoning is confirmed by fact. A gentle- 

 man laid fome of this manure on a fmall 

 part of a field, confifling of a very light 

 fandy foil. The oats which grew that year, 

 and the clover which grew the following, 

 were much better on that part than on the 

 reft of the field. 



7f* . 



THE following experiment was tried on 

 equal portions of about three feet fquare, 

 in a very light fandy foil, during the laft 



fummer, 



