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What they graze is in the morning and evening ; 

 and in many cases they lose in the heat of the day 

 all they gain at those moments of their comfort. 

 To this superiority we must add that of the main 

 object, which is the dunghill : in one case this is 

 accumulated in a degree even superior to what is 

 effected in winter ; in the other it is scattered 

 about the pastures, and nine-tenths of it carried 

 away by the flies, or dried almost to a caput mor- 

 tuum by the sun. The warmth of the season in 

 summer promotes the fermentation in a mass, and 

 speedily prepares it for use, in whatever state the 

 farmer wishes to have it. The prodigious superi- 

 ority of thus raising a large and very valuable dung- 

 hill in one case, and none at all in the other, ought 

 to convince any reasonable man, that there is not a 

 practice in husbandry so decidedly superior as thi 

 of soiling, were there not one other reason for it 

 than what have already been produced. 



Those farmers who have given particular atten- 

 tion to the state of farm-yard manure, as it is made 

 in winter and in summer, and to the efficacy of both, 

 can scarcely have failed to remark, that the supe- 

 riority of the dung arising from any sort of stock, 

 commonly fed, in summer, is very great to such as 

 is nlade in winter from stock no better fed. The 

 manure yielded by fat hogs, and by fat beasts fed 

 on oil-cake, is of such a quality, that the season 

 does not demand attention ; bat with all other 

 stock I have great reason to believe, from many 



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