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dung-yard is cleared out, to lay a stratum of it at the bottom, so that, 

 when the contents are taken out some time after, it will be found as 

 valuable a manure, as any other in his possession. 



Every diligent arboriculturist, and every one residing at a distance 

 from a town or considerable village, where dung can be purchased at 

 pleasure, should have a well or pit at the lower side of his dung-yard, 

 to which the juice naturally tends, and without which great loss of a 

 valuable substance is always sulTpred, especially in rainy weather. This 

 pit should be carefully lined with dry-stone, and secured underneath, 

 and at the sides, with a good wall of well made clay -puddle, a foot 

 thick. It should have erected in it a pump of cast iron (for wood in 

 such a situation, is of no durability), of which the working-barrel is 

 about four inches and-a-half in diameter. 



The method of making this manure is extremely simple. Once in 

 ten days in winter-time, and about three weeks in smmner, the liquor 

 collected is pumped up into a large barrel, mounted with a three-inch 

 brass cock. The barrel used for watering your trees in tlie park, will 

 answer the purpose admirably. Having prepared a heap of peat-moss, 

 as dry, and as far advanced as possible toivards decomposition, and hav- 

 ing conveyed the water-cart to the spot, the liquid is to be drawn off in 

 stable-pails, and poured leisurely over the heap. A s soon as it has in 

 this way got two complete waterings, it is to be turned and thoroughly 

 mixed ; and, provided the liquid be pretty strongly impregnated with the 

 fertilizing juices, a second course of both, that is, in all four waterings, 

 the whole will be found converted into valuable manure, fitted for every 

 purpose of husbandry, arboriculture, or horticulture. 



One thing only in the department last mentioned, may be noticed, and 

 that is, that the application of this manure, or indeed of any other, of 

 which peaty matter forms a part, should be confined, by the gardener, 

 to crops cultivated with the spade, or the hoe. For those raised from 

 small seeds, and which require hand-weeding, it is not so suitable, from 

 the quantity of chick-weed that decomposed peat is apt to engender, 

 especially in the first season. 



