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ens, docks, thistles, hedge and gooseberry primings, 

 furze, broom, every thing of the wood kind not fit 

 for fuel, if covered with a little earth, will rot down 

 in one year and constitute a manure of excellent \ 

 quality whether for garden or field. Keep clean ' 

 doors, clean roads, clean entrances by every gate 

 the only luxury that enriches; for thus the un- 

 clean stepping which annoys both eye and foot will 

 in time become gold in your hand. Wherever this 

 plan of gathering from all quarters is pursued, the 

 amount will be so great as to provoke the wonder 

 whence it came, or whether it would have gone had 

 it not been collected. Evaporation on the surface 

 of the earth is like the insensible perspiration- you 

 see not whither the substance goes, but, by con- 

 sidering the ingesta, you perceive how much has 

 been lost; and so, by viewing the congesta in this 

 case, you perceive how much has been gained. 

 But to make the idea of value more tangible, it N 

 may be certainly affirmed that every cubic yard of ( 

 this omnium gatherum, when mixed with a small 

 proportion of lime, is worth five shillings; and ^ 

 that with no sensible outlay you may acquire, in 

 the course of two or three years, the invaluable 

 treasure of sixty cart-loads of the best manure, 

 which will make all around you to flow with milk 

 and honey. 



After the above preparations, the raising of crops 

 becomes pleasant and profitable, as the work is easy 

 and the remuneration sure. We suppose the soil 

 now to be in a good state, both as to depth and 



