FEBRUARY. 103 



" Such a compost, by duly proportioning the in- 

 gredients, may be made to suit any sort of land, 

 ?nd i&gP&A for meadow or pasture grounds. A way 

 to improve these, is to cut them five or six inches 

 deep .with the five-coultered cutting-plough, or sca- 

 rificator, which cuts the surface in slips four or five 

 inches asunder, but does not raise or 'turn them. 

 This cutting of the roots of the grass, and the ma- 

 nure laid on at the same time, sinking into these 

 incisions, made by the coulters, causes an improve- 

 ment in the quality of the herbage, and also makes 

 such grass-grounds produce more than they did 

 before. But here it is to be noted, that cutting 

 the. ground first,, and then laying on the manure, 

 makes a greater improvement than manuring first 

 and then, cutting ; a:id both arc superior to manu- 

 ring and not cutting. The cutting-plough is used 

 with success upon temperate clay -grounds and 

 loams; but in very strong grounds the coulters 

 are apt to be thrown out of their work by stones j 

 and therefore it is npt proper to use the cutting- 

 plough where stones abound. 



" In such composts where it is intended to use 

 a large proportion of earth, th : t a conside- 



rable distance from the homestead, to save the 

 double carriage of it to and from the compost heap, 

 the dung and other materials may be carried to 

 a headland of the fieM to be manured, and there 

 mixed into a compost. . v 



" The best situation for a composf, is upon 

 level ground ; or if made upon a descent, a trench 



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