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adduces a number of excellent authorities in support 

 of the plan. Many who doubted, have been lately con- 

 vinced; and perhaps there is no subject of investiga- 

 tion in which there is such a union of theoretical and 

 practical evidence. I have myself within the last ten 

 years witnessed a number of distinct proofs on the 

 subject. I shall content myself with quoting that 

 which ought to have, and which I am sure will have, 

 the greatest weigfet amongst agriculturists. Within 

 the last seven years Mr. Coke has entirely given up 

 the system formerly adopted on his farm of applying 

 fermented dung; and he informs me, that his crops 

 have been since as good as they ever were, and that 

 his manure goes nearly twice as far. 



A great objection against slightly fermented dung 

 is, that weeds spring up more luxuriantly where it is 

 applied. If there are seeds carried out in the dung 

 they certainly will germinate; but it is seldom that this 

 can be the case to any extent; and if the land is not 

 cleansed of weeds, any kind of manure fermented or 

 unfermented will occasion their rapid growth. If 

 slightly fermented farm-yard dung is used as a top 

 dressing for pastures, the long straws and unfermented 

 vegetable matter remaining on the surface should be 

 removed as soon as the grass begins to rise vigorous- 

 ly by raking, and carried back to the dunghill: in this 

 case no manure will be lost, and the husbandry will 

 be at once clean and ceconomical. 



In cases when farm-yard dung cannot be immedi- 

 ately applied to crops, the destructive fermentation of 

 it should be prevented as much as posssible: the prin- 



