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season of the year is so nourishing as it was in the 



summer. 



MANURE GRASS. 



Dung should not be kept until it is so rotten that 

 it will wash into turf; because, by that time, it 

 loses its virtue at a great rate, and, while in full fer- 

 mentation, it is of great utility to all land. There 

 are many succedaneums for du;7g, or at least for 

 making it go much farther on grass than on arable: 

 the proper composts are chalk, clay, turf, ditch- 

 earth, pond-mud, lime, ashes, soot, with some 

 clung ; all, or some of these, mixed together, will 

 be in order for spreading on grass lands, and will be 

 highly sufficient to keep them in good heart, with 

 but a small quantity of dung. The end of this 

 month is a proper season for carrying such composts 

 on: lay about 15 or 20 yards an acre. It is difficult 

 to over-manure arable lands, but very easily done 

 on grass; because large quantities do not wash in 

 quick enough. Let the compost heaps be spread 

 very regularly. A good farmer will manage to give 

 his pastures, unless they are very rich, a dressing 

 of compost every four years. Always add a pound 

 of common salt to every cubic yard of compost 

 sprinkled in, in turning over. 



SCARIFY GRASS LANDS. 

 Scarifying grass is a new practice of some ingeni- 

 ous gentlemen, but not yet become common hus- 

 bandry. It consists in cutting the turf with a 

 i i 4 plough 



