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hy all its wafhings in the courfe of the year, is too mart!* 

 ■fell to need any thing faid upon it. It is true, that in this 

 way of putting all his nev/ dung into the compoft heap, 

 the farmer i-nuft go a year without manure, if he has not 

 that which is old and good hy him ; but when once he has 

 his compoft heap fit for ufe, after that he has his manure 

 as regularly every year, as thofe who follow the pernicious 

 pra£lice of wafting their new dung, (I can call it nothing 

 better, for it often does hurt) ; and he who follows the 

 above method, or fomething like it, will foon find that 

 from one acre of land, well manured, he can raife more 

 than he can from tv/o without manure, fo that one half his 

 labour will be faved ; the labour and pains that he has 

 been at in making manure, will be returned with ample 

 increafe into his barn and Itores, and his farm at the fame 

 time increafing in riches, 



Thofe who have a good flock of cattle, hogs, &c. may, 

 in fom.e fuch way as the above, increafe their manure to 

 almoll any quantity they fhall need i And fuch as have 

 no cattle (and there are doubtlefs fome fuch among our 

 new fettlers) may, in the above way, make confiderablc 

 manure in the courfe of the year, from the wafli of the 

 houfe only ; and fuch manure is good, and will produce 

 cucumbers, peas, beans, &c* quicker than good yard dung. 

 To conclude, the more any one attends to the affair of 

 manuring his farm, the eaGer and more elegantly it will 

 fupport him ; whilft, without that, upon fuch land and 

 in fuch a climate as we have in this country, an indu{lriouf^ 

 man may, after a courfe of years, find that all his labou? 

 hath been in vain. 



Fe^. 20, 1790. A FARxMER. 



Experiments to determine 'whether it is heft to plant 



LARGE Cr SMALL CUTTINGS o/ToTATOES. 

 \_By the Rev. Mr, Cochp.an.] 



N the Nova Scotii Magazine* for December,. 

 ^789, there appeared forae extracts from an EK^y on Po- 

 tatoes, 



* V-,.l- T, p^rje 4"4-. 



