AGRICULTURE WITH CHEMISTRY. j.- 



the reply of C ato, assumed as a text in the beginning of 

 the chapter, it will be obvious, that the judicious Roman, 

 by his expression of " /^e/ie pascere,'^ (which is to be 

 translated, to graze well, or to procure food for cattle) 

 must have had in view the conneclion between feeding 

 of cattle and the produ6lion of manure. Every article 

 of m:inure, ultimately tending to render ground more 

 fertile ami productive, falls likewise under the preseat 



discussion. 



Inse<5ls of all kinds, under the names of worms, snails^ 

 gru!>s, slug?, 8cc. Sec. exist in the ground ; and in such 

 grouuils as arc fertile, in much greater abundance than 

 is generally imagined. Their food, most undoubtedly, 

 must be either fresh vegetables, or decaying or decayed 

 vegetable matter. In the former case, such insedls prove 

 extremely destru^livc ; whilst in the latter they may be 

 of service to the vegetable kingdom, by rendering the 

 decayed cr decaying vegetables, eaten by them, more 

 soluble by the process of digestion. In this chss 

 are to be included the common earth worms, which are 

 only to be found in great numlicrs in ground containing 



a large 



