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feeds of noxious weeds as effectually as if they 

 were boiled in water, and will render them as 

 incapable of vegetation as if they had lain twelve 

 months in a hill. 



It has been cuftomary with fome farmers, 

 intelligent men in other refpects, to turn their 

 manure over in the fold, in the fpring, in dry 

 weather; and as it is dry and trodden down 

 hard, they are obliged to cut it with a hay- 

 knife, and throw it up in lumps : but, in heat- 

 ing, the dry part will injure the moift, and pre- 

 vent putrefaction. That, therefore, is not fo 

 good a method j for the more it is fhaken about, 

 and the lighter the hill is made, the quicker it 

 heats and rots: and no fold-manure can be in 

 a proper ftate to be laid on land till it has un- 

 dergone a degree of fermentation. The manure 

 thrown out at ftable-doors, if the cattle do not 

 tread it down, may change into a proper ftate 

 without being moved. The greater variety in 

 the forts of manure, the better; fuch as the 

 dung of pigs, horfes, cows, &c. 



By this method you may, in one or two 

 months, make excellent manure, far exceeding 

 that made by the common procefs, which re- 

 quires fo much time and labour to bring it to 

 perfection. The old farmer prides himfelfon 



having 



