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BUT there is yet a worfe confequence 

 from fuch a fituation. The juices of the 

 dunghill are diflblvable in water, and are 

 Continually warned off by the rains which 

 fall, Hence a great part, nay almoft the 

 whole of the vegetable food, is loft. It is 

 a bad advice, therefore, which the Journal 

 Oeconomique gives, to place the dunghill 

 on a declivity. A hollow fituation, where 

 the bottom is clay, or where it is caufeyed, 

 is the propereft to carry pn the procefs of 

 corruption. 



As the fun and wind exhales the volatile 

 falts and oils, and as too much air rather 

 retards this procefs, I mould think it very 

 reafonable, to place the dunghill in a fituation 

 fhadowed and furrounded by trees. There 

 is a clofenefs and moiflure in this fituation, 

 which will very much faypur corruption. 



I fee that practical farmers advife, that 

 the dunghill mould be covered with earth, 



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