4o6 FARM-YARD MANAGEMENT. 25, 



little yard-manure they make, — let its qua- 

 lity be what it may^^ 



The general practice at prefent h to pile 

 it on the higheft part of the yard ; or, which.^ 

 is ftill lefs judicious, to let it lie fcattcrcd. 

 about on the fide of a flope, as it were for the 

 purpofe of dilTipating its virtues. 



The urine which does not mix with thc- 

 dung is almoft invariably led off the neareit 

 way Lo the common-ihore, as if it were 

 thought a nuifance to the premiles. That 

 w.hich mixes with the dung is of courfe car-. 

 ried co the " midden," and affifls in the ge- 

 neral difllpation. 



A yard of dwigt nine-tenths of which is 

 ftraw, will difcharge even in dry weather 

 fomeof irs m.ore fluid particles i and in rainy- 

 weather is, noiwithftanding the ftraw, liable 

 to be walhed away if expofed on a riling, 

 ground. 



But how. much more liable to wafte is a 

 mixture of dung and urine, with barely a 

 fufficiency of ftraw to keep it together in a 

 body ? In dry weather, the natural oozing is 

 conful ruble ; and in a wet feafon, every, 

 ihower of rain walhes it away in quantity. It 



may 



