i6d M A N U R E - P R O C E S S. u. 



an operation, however, which is too frequently 

 negletled. 



Or, inltead of turning the piles in the yard, 

 they are fometimes carried, at leifure-times in 

 fummer, on to the land, and there piled afrelh : 

 in either cafe, the compoft, by the time it be 

 wanted to be fet on, is thoroughly mixed and 

 digelled. 



The method of fettin^ on dung Is fimilar to 

 that of carrying-out : and from twenty-five to 

 thirty loads are confidered as a day's work for 

 one team and two fillers : all fet on in hillocks. 



The quantity fet upon an acre Is, of courfe, 

 proportioned to the quantity of land to be ma- 

 nured, and the quantity of dung to be fet on : 

 ten loads of good fpit-dung, or twelve to fif- 

 teen loads of compofl:, is, perhaps, the medial 

 quantity fet upon an acre, for turneps : — for 

 "ji'heat a fmaller quantity, and generally of a 

 worfe quality, is ufually allowed. 



Some few farmers manure their clover-leys, 

 but this is by no means common \ the appli- 

 cation of dung being, as has been faid, in a man- 

 ner wholly to the turncp and wheat crops. 



It may alfo be laid, in general terms, that 

 all the dung fprcad upon this Diflrid is plozved 



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