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the centre, in the form of a very shallow bowl ; upon 

 this stratum or bed of mould shoot five or six loads 

 of horse-dung. This must be turned over and wa- 

 tered if necessary, till it begins to ferment and heat ; 

 this is the first stage of decomposition. The turning 

 and watering will soon occasion it to decay and rot ; 

 the fermented and strongly impregnated juices pro- 

 ceeding from the dung, and the ullage occasioned 

 from time to time by the rains, will all be received 

 and absorbed in the mould below it, so that none of 

 the saline particles, which are accounted the grand 

 fertilizers of the earth, will escape and be lost. 



How often emotions of regret, at the folly and ig- 

 norance of our English farmers, have loeen excited in 

 the breast of the celebrated agriculturist, Arthur 

 Young, Esq., while riding through the country, in 

 seeing heaps of manure lying on eminences by the 

 road sides, and the black, impregnated juices drain- 

 ing from it, and running in waste into the ditches ; 

 which, if they had been preserved in the manner 

 described, would have served to fertilize their fields ; 

 the residuum being comparatively a corpus mortuum > 



