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it does operate ; for it will be felt, with-* 

 out a repetition, at leaft twenty years. 

 No manure, in fliort, is fo lafting. Some 

 people have imagined, that mar/ will not 

 anfwer a fecond time -, but I am of opi- 

 nion, that if a fmall quantity be ufed in 

 a comport, it may be repeated, with very 

 good fuccefs, every tenth, or twelfth 

 year. 



All aflies are indifputably good ; but 

 peat-afhes are the nobleft manure we 

 have, for all kinds of artificial gralTes. 

 Thofe who live in the neighbourhood 

 of Newbury, in Berkfiire, are fenfible of 

 their ineilimable value. There are un- 

 doubtedly a vaft number of meadows, 

 and commons, in many other counties, 

 where peat may be found ; but, though 

 its afhes are one of the moil valuable 

 forts of manure the kingdom produces, 



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