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may be a moot point whether, in fome cafes, 

 half the eflential virtues of the dung as a 

 manure may not be loft by improper manage- 

 ^lent. Certain it is, that in all cafcs much 

 too great a proportion is loft ; and it behoves 

 the huft)andmen of this Diftrift, and of every 

 Diftricft where the houfing of cattle in winter 

 is pradifed, to pay particular attention to the 

 management of Farm- yard-manure. 



If a fmall proportion of the expence and 

 attention which has of late years beenfo well 

 beftowedon the making of Drin king-pools 

 were to be applied to the forming of Dung- 

 yards, the profits, great as they are in one 

 cafe, would, I am pcrfuaded, be found ftill 

 greater in the other. 



The Norfolk method of bottoming the 

 dung-yard with mould is here indifpenfably 

 neceffary to common good management. 

 There is no better manure for grassland 

 than mould faturated with the oozings of a 

 dunghill : it gets down quicker among the 

 grafs, and has generally a more vifible cftedl 

 than the dung itfelf. To negledt fo valuable " 

 a fource of manure, is negle(5ting a mine of 

 gold and filvcr which may be worked at 

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