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roads, and mixing them with their common yard 

 •muck, which would multiply their quantity of ma- 

 nure exceedingly, and do no manner of injury to 

 the fields or roads ; but by lowering the ground 

 at the fides of the fences, (where nothing of profit 

 grows) help to let the furface water into the ditches 

 the eafier. 



There is another fource, which I here offer 

 more particularly to gentlemen who are in poffef- 

 £on of parks, plantations, and lands in hand, and 

 that is, to caufe a permanent fold, during the win- 

 ter months, to be pitched, in fome fheltered fpot, 

 near their woods, and to pen their (lore flock in it, 

 giving the fheep the quantity of hay they are ac- 

 cuflomed to have, in racks, in the fold, and litter- 

 ing it every night with frefh leaves of trees, with 

 ru flies, mofs, or any other fimilar rubbifh that c'an 

 be collected ; this turned up together, in the month 

 of April, and mixed with about one-fixth part of 

 lime, rubble from old walls, or any fort of afhes, 

 will make as good a fort of j.ianure as can be laid on 

 turnips — and the quantity will be very confiderable : 

 fuffice it, that on one of His Majefty's farms at 

 Windfor, I made, in one winter, fix hundred cart 

 loads from fix hundred fheep. Every gentleman, 

 however, who tries this, mult fet out with a deter- 

 mination not to be defeated by the prejudice or ob- 

 flinacy of their bailiffs and fhepherds, who will en- 

 deavour to perfuade them out of it, by fuggefting, 



I) that 



