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the tank be thrown on to the heaps, after settling 

 .hrough, they return by box under-drains into the 

 yrards> and tank. If a surplus is still on hand, a cart 

 with a hogshead and sprinkler is used, with which, 

 in a four to one diluted state, I irrigate such grass- 

 lands as I think may be benefited by it, or my grain 

 crops in such parts of a field as I apprehend may 

 want it : an excellent method of readily adding to 

 the manure, and of forcing those parts of a field 

 which in the spring are perceived to want manuring; 

 or my garden is fertilized and forced by it to any 

 state of productiveness which can be effected by such 

 an application of the most stringent and prompt in 

 its influence, of all manures. The last spring, in 

 spots where my wheat did not thrive comparatively, 

 applying it with a watering-pot, the grain advanced 

 and outstripped the surrounding parts of the crop, 

 which before had afforded better promise of thrift. 

 Pouring a pint of it into a hill of corn, of potatoes, or 

 of vines of any kind, will be found to give an aston- 

 ishing impulse to them. 



The filling and driving of the cart, of sprinkling it 

 on the field, or applying it to the hill or garden, is the 

 work of the barnyard power, a boy, horse, cart, 

 sprinkler, and watering-pot. The cart and its sprink- 

 ler, in its form and use, is in all respects like those 

 employed in cities for sprinkling the streets. To 

 irrigate and manure drilled crops, the sprinkler 

 should be taken from the rear of the cart, and two 

 of them should be hung parallel with the shafts and 

 over the drills. 



During the heavy rains of the fall and spring, 

 should the drainings of the yard accumulate and fill 

 the tank, and not be otherwise wanted, the surplus is 

 let off into a muck-road, embanked on the sides, and 

 filled to the depth of ten to fifteen inches with sea- 

 weed, turf, turf ashes, and a small supply of manure, 

 and made gradually to percolate and settle down- 

 ward through a distance of from four to six hundred 

 feet in length and twenty in breadth, and through 

 which muc/c-road cattle, carts, and vehicles of every 



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