34 O/Dung. Chap. IV. 



The Crop of 20 Acres will fcarce make Dung 

 fufficient for one Acre, in the common Way of laying 

 it on. 



The Action of the Dung's Ferment affords a 

 Warmth (a) to the Infant-plants, in their moft tender 

 State, and the moft rigorous Seafon. 



But 'tis hard to know how long the Warmth of 

 this Ferment lafteth, by reafon of the great Difficulty 

 to diflinguifh the very lead Degree of Heat from the 

 very leaft Degree of Cold. 



Under the Name of Dung we may alfo underftand 

 whatever ferments with the Earth (except Fire)-, fuch 

 as green Vegetables cover'd in the Ground, &c. 



As to the Difference of the Quantity of artificial 

 Failure made by Dung without Tillage, and that 

 made by Tillage without Dung-, the latter is many 

 Times greater, of which I had the following Proof. 

 An unplow'd Land, wherein a Duwghil had lain for 

 two or three Years, and being taken away, was plant- 

 ed with Turneps \ at the fame time a till'd Land, con- 

 tiguous thereto, was drill'd with Turneps ^ and Horfe- 

 ho'd •, the other, being Hand-ho'd, profpered befb 

 at the firft ; but at lad did not amount to the Fifth 

 "Part of the Till'd and Horfe-ho'd, in Bignefs, nor in 

 Crop. The Benefit of the Dung and Hand-hoe was 

 fo inconfiderable, in comparifon of the Plough and 

 Hoe-plough ; the little Quantity of artificial Pafture 

 raifed to the other, was only near the Surface, and 

 did not reach deep enough to maintain the Tumeps, 

 till they arrived at the Fifth Part of the Growth of 



(a) But though Dung in fermenting may have a little Warmth, 

 yet it may fometimes, by letting more Water enter its Hollow- 

 nefs, be in a Froft much colder than undung'd pulveriz'd Earth ; 

 for I have feen Wheat-plants in the Winter die in the very Spits 

 of Dung, when undung'd drill'd Wheat, adjoining to it, planted 

 at the fame Time, has flourifii'd all the fame Winter ; and J could 

 not rind any other Reafon for this, but the Hollownefs of the 

 Dung ; and yet it feemed to be well rotted. j 



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