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having manure accumulated for a year at leaft 

 preceding the ufe : but he is wrong to boafl of 

 fuch management — it is falfe economy. The 

 falts and oil, which conftitute the richeft part 

 of the manure, evaporate ; and the juices drain 

 from it, if it lie long after being taken from the 

 fold-y*ard or refervoir. 



When roots of grafs, couch, ftubble-roots, 

 rotten vegetables of mod forts, weeds from 

 (landing pools and ditches, and almoft all kinds 

 of refufe fluff, by being plunged in the refer- 

 voir, are made into manure, it will take much 

 longer time to rot it down; as, from its being 

 made chiefly of weeds, and roots of weeds, they 

 will be liable to grow again, efpecially if there 

 be any couch-roots among them. 



Let the manure from the refervoir be work- 

 ed dov/n very fine, and, when compofed of roots 

 of weeds, laid as a tcp-drejfing on clover or feeds 

 two years eaten ; for, were it put in drills, and 

 covered with mould, there is danger of its again 

 filling the land with weeds. It is well known 

 the fmallefl piece of couch-grafs will, from its 

 great fucculency, be liable to vegetate. I tried 

 an experiment, by raking the couch clean from 

 from the fallow in very hot dry weather, and 

 had it carried into the fold-yard, where at the 



time 



