408 FARM-YARD MANAGEMENT. 2j. 



command. Under this management, the 

 arable land would have the feif-fame dung it 

 TjOvv has ; while the grafsland would have an 

 annual fupply of riches, which nowrunwaftc 

 in the fhores and rivulets. 



But before a dung-yard can with propriety 

 be bottomed with mould, the bottom of the 

 yard itfelf ought to be properly formed. 

 A part of it fituated conveniently for car- 

 riages to come at, and low enough to receive 

 the entire drainaoc of the ftable, cattle-ftalls, 

 and hog-flies, fhould be hollowed out in the 

 manner of an arrihcial Drinking-pool, with a 

 rim fomewhat riling, and with covered 

 drains laid into it from the various fources 

 of liquid manure. 



During the fumraer months, at leifurc- 

 ;ime<;, r.nd embracing opportunities of back- 

 carriage, f.U the hollow nearly full with 

 mould, — fuch as the fcowerings of ditches, 

 the fiiovtiings of roads, the maiden earth of 

 hnes and uaflc corners, the coping of ftone- 

 (juarrles, ^ic. ike. — leaving the furfacc fome- 

 what diibcd ; and within this difli fet the 

 dung-pile, carefully keeping up a rim of 



moulci 



