Every day's ejiperience evinces that our foil is good, yet, 

 fuch is the coldnefs of the climate, that when land has been 

 improved three or four years without manure, it grows 

 rnolTy, and afterwards produces but little : There are few 

 countries, therefore, where the article of manure can ba 

 more profitably attended to, becaufe, when well prepared, 

 it not only replenilhes the earth with food for vegetables, 

 but by its warmth counterbalances the coldnefs of the cli- 

 mate. As what has been written on this fubje£l is in the 

 hands of but few, I have endeavoured to brmg together 

 the opinions of the moH modern authors, which from my 

 own experience I can recommend to the praSice of the 

 farmers in this country, remarking at the fame time, upon 

 the improper ufc which too many make of their dung. 

 Lime, Mari, Plaifler of Paris, &c. &c. are good, andfome 

 of them perhaps the beil of manures : But it is not in every 

 one's power to procure them, efpecialiy in fuch quantities 

 as are neceilary for the farmer : But a Compost is within 

 the reach of every perfon, and almofl; in any quantities, 

 and which no prudent peifon, upon knowing its ufefulnefs, 

 will ever be without. 



There is perhaps no one praSlice in hufbandry more in- 

 judiciousthan that of taking nev/ oungfrom theyard, in the 

 fpring, and ufing it as a manure for potatoes, Ipread over 

 the ground, or in any other way Vi^hatever, as it introduces 

 grafs, weeds, and noxious plants, which more than balan- 

 ces any little benefit that it can poiubly do as a manure 

 when ufed in that unprepared (late. 



When new dung lies in large heaps it foon grows very 

 hot, and a violent putrid fermentation comes on, which 

 melts the whole into one common mals, reverfing what 

 took place in vegetation, bringing that matter wliich has 

 been the fubflance of former vegetables into fuch a ftate, 

 that it will become the food for fucceeding vegetables : 

 But when it is put in fmall quantities in the hills of pota- 

 toes, or fpread on the ground and plowed in, even if it 

 had begun to grow hot and ferment, it will immediately be 

 cooled by the furrounding earth. In order to keep alive 

 that heat which is necefTary for its putrefadion, or rotting, 

 it mud be kept in large heaps. Let any one fpread new 

 dung over the ground, and in a week's time, if the weath- 

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