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ing is over, and then to turn it np where it li 

 into heaps, and leave it till wanted to cnrt on for 

 turnips. Others, who intend it for wheat, having 

 turned up a border or hedgreen in the field that is 

 to be sown with wheat, cart the muck on to the 

 earth so prepared, and afterwards, sooner or later, 

 mix them together, and before the xv heat- seed ing 

 cart it on to the land. If no border of this sort, 

 they make a heap of it, which is afterwards turned 

 over. These are the more general methods. Some 

 few, thinking it beneficial to have the dung as 

 rotten as possible, keep it over year, as they term 

 it, and turn a second time. It is evident that these 

 several methods are founded on certain idea-, that 

 rotting is beneficial, and that more is gained in 

 quality than is lost in quantity by that operation. 

 This is a very important question, and well de- 

 serves many careful experiments to ascertain the 

 real fact ; but unfortunately the number of these 

 hitherto made is so few, that they have not done 

 much more than excite some attention to the point, 

 and instigate several intelligent and thinking men 

 to give more consideration to the subject than they 

 had been accustomed to do. Mr. Thompson, of 

 Northamptonshire, observing a spot in a field of 

 corn better than the contiguous parts, and not be- 

 ing able to account for it, made inquiries among 

 his people, and found that it was where long straw 

 dung had been spread ; the rest in a rotten state : 

 he took the hint, and tried the comparison experi- 

 mentally: the result the same. He repeated it, 



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