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quality ; even though tiirncps make a part of 

 their fooci. The dung of fuch cattle, kept on 

 ftraw, alone, is efteemed of little or no value. 

 And, what may appear extraordinary to niany, 

 the muck froln the ftraw which is trodden, 

 onlv, is by Ibme thought to be better than that 

 from the ftraw \^hich is eattn by lean-ftock. 



VI. CbM POST.— This iiiay be faid id be thfc 

 common manure of the DiftrliSl ; for there is very 

 little dung fet ori without being firft mixed, in 

 the yard, or in the field, with rriduld, marl, 

 or other ** manner." See Mould. 



Sometimes a confiderable proportion of 

 "manner" is added to the dung : I have knowi? 

 a compoft of one part marl, one part mould, and 

 the third part diihg, ufed in comilibn, by a very 

 induftrious judicious farmer, with fuccefs. 



It feems to be a fftd well-eftablifhed, that al- 

 though marl, alone, will not anfwer on land 

 which has been recently marled ; yet mixed 

 with dung, it produces a beneficial effed:. 



VII. Teathe. — This is a provincial term, 

 Conveying a compound idea, for which we have 

 no Englifh word. When we make ufe of the term 



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