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but such a trial demands particular attention, or it 

 may deceive. Supposing two half acres marked 

 out, they should be manured, the one with a cer- 

 tain portion of rotten dung, and the other with that 

 portion of the same sort long, which the degree of 

 freshness would demand in order to produce in rot- 

 ting the quantity so carried in a rotten state : this 

 cannot be prescribed, for it depends on the state of 

 both dunghills at the moment. This is one way of 

 trying it; but a still more accurate method is, to 

 litter- two sties, each of ten hogs fed equally, or 

 two sheds of four fat bullocks, with a certain weight 

 of trussed straw, and to use the dung of one fresh 

 and of the other turned up and rotten ; the experi- . 

 ment terminating at a time when the long dung 

 can be used ; the rotten may wait, but the long 

 cannot. 



Should the farmer determine on the older me- 

 thod, he turns and mixes his yard-dung as before 

 described. If on the new way, he has nothing to 

 do this month, but is to wait till he wants it for his 

 turnip crop, 



FEEDING OR MOWING GRASS-LAND. . 

 As this is the usual season of turning cattle to 

 grass, and consequently the time of determining 

 what fields are to be fed, and what mown ; our 

 young farmer has some circumstances to attend to 

 which may demand consideration. For instance, 

 is alternate feeding and mowing better than to keep 

 scythe out of pastures, and the cattle out of 

 s J mowing 



