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compound. When the moss and lime are mix- 

 ed, the moss ought to be tolerably dry, and the 

 lime new slacked and hot. This mixture, af- 

 ter it has lien three or four months, should be 

 turned over ; and in 5 or 6 months after, turned 

 a second time. At this second turning, the 

 dung ought to be added. After having receiv- 

 ed the dungj it should not ly above three weeks^ 

 before it be laid upon the land. In some cases, 

 the natural qualities of the composition may re- 

 quire it to be thrice turned, and to ly twelve 

 months before it be used. Thirty cubical yards 

 of this compound, per acre, will be a sufficient 

 dressing for turnip, and forty for wheat. 



SECT. IT. WEEDING. 



WEEDS ought to be considered as robbers, 

 that pilfer the food which is necessary for the 

 support of the more valuable and useful vege- 

 tables, and therefore ought by all means to be 

 destroyed. Or if their total extirpation cannot 

 be accomplished, their propagation at least should 

 be checked, and their nuir>bers diminished as 

 much as possible. The weeds most commonly 

 to be met with in this county, and which, at the 

 Same time, prove most hurtful to the land, are 

 the thistle, the dock-weed, the rag- weed, wild 

 mustard, and wild raddish, provincially called 

 skellocks, guild, or the wild chrysanthemum^ 

 spurry, couch-grass, knot-grass, crowfoot, and 

 some others. 10 destroy these, and every o- 

 ther noxious weed, summer-fallowing, and 

 horse and hand hoeing, with drilled cjops, arc 



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