aS MANURES. ^ 



mon obfervation, that the mould thus pre- 

 pared *' lies longer in the ground" — is a more 

 permanent manure, than the dung itfelf. 



This is not improbable ; for crude unmixed 

 dung, buried in lumps, and diffolved in the 

 foil by heavy rains, is liable, no doubt, to 

 be carried away, in parr, below the vegetative 

 ftratum; efpeeially of a light foil : therefore, 

 to arrell and fix it, before it be carried upon 

 the land, feems to be, in the management of 

 fuch a foil at Icaft, highly judicious. 



This piece of good management is talked 

 about in mod countries, and pradtifed perhaps 

 by fome few individuals ; but, in Norfolk, a 

 light land country, it is the univerfal pradliice*. 



The principal fource of this mould — pro- 

 vincially, " manner"— is the fhovellino-s of 

 ditches; which, in this country, are found to 

 contain in themfelves a Angularly fertilizing 

 property. This rich mould is not compofed 

 of the fediment of the wafliings of the adjoin- 



* I mean, to bottom dung-heaps with a ftratum of 

 WM)uld. It is not equally univerfal to turn over and mix the 

 «lung and mould together ; but this is frequently done by 

 jTOod hufbandmen. It is not, however, in every cafe, 

 eligible. A dung heap, formed in the fprhig^ for turnep% 

 w^uld, in a. dry feafon, be injured by fuch treatment. 



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