90 A TREATISE ON THE CONNECTIO:7 OF 



STABLE, FARM YARD DUNG, AND COMPOSTS. 



When Cato was asked what was, the hest system of 

 farming, he thrice answered, that the best system of 

 farming was to procure food for cattle ; a reply which 

 refers to obvious consequences, and requires no explana- 

 tion. 



Although it is a common saying in Scotland, that 

 *' muck is the mother of the meal chest," still there is no 

 country where the preservation of the urine of cattle, 

 and the juices of dung-heaps, are so little attended to; 

 or where the farmers, in general, are at so little pains to 

 procure the greatest quantity of an article so indispensa- 

 bly necessary to the obtaining abundant crops. 



In England, the farmers are much more attentive to 

 the making and collctling this species of manure, and 



their conveniencies of farm-yards, and other places for 

 preserving dung, arc better chosen. These are not only- 

 kept fully littered, but the lanes and hollow ways, in the 



vicinity 



