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should be cut on the lower side to receive the 

 ning of the heap, which is sorfre of the best part of 

 it, and should from time to time be thrown up 

 again, which will quicken the fermentation. 



" The richest composts may be made in the 

 farm-yard, which should be made gently deepening 

 all round, from the sides to the middle, in form of 

 a shallow bason'. When the yard is made in this 

 form, little of the urine or liquid part of the ma- 

 nure can run off or be wasted. When the dung 

 Is carried from the stables, cow-houses, &c. into 

 the farm -yard, it should not be thrown carelessly 

 in heaps, each sort by itself, but carried in carts or 

 wheel-barrows, and laid regularly, and spread all 

 over the yard. Upon this should be spread a thin 

 layer of earth, mud, the scourings of ditches and 

 ponds, green vegetables before they run to seed, 

 and such other materials as are most suitable to the 

 nature of the land to be manured with them. The 

 racks and cribs out of which the cattle are fod- 

 dered, should be frequently moved over the yard, 

 that the offal straw and hay may be equally dis- 

 persed, and trod in by the cattle. This method of 

 spreading the dung and other materials being con* 

 tir,ued, the whole will be incorporated with the 

 urine of the cattle, and make an extraordinary rich 

 compost. 



" The only inconveniency of this kind of com- 

 post, is its being filled with the seeds of weeds, 

 from the earth mixed with it, the hay, straw, and 

 dung of the cattle. It is therefore a manure best 



suited 



