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Compods are of feveral kinds, and tliey 

 Ihould differ according to the different nature 

 or quality of the foils which they arc deGgned 

 to meliorate, and according as the land is ci- 

 ther light, fandy, loofe, heavy, clayey or clod- 

 dy. A. light loofe land requires a heavy com- 

 pofl-, as clay, the fcouring of ditches, ponds, 

 drains, &c. On the contrary, a land that is 

 heavy, clayey, or cloddy, requires a compoft 

 of a more fprightly and fiery nature, that will 

 infinuate itfelf into and penetrate the lumpilh 

 clods, which, if they are not thus managed and 

 broken, would very much impede the work of 



vegetation. 



I will now give an opinion of the different 

 compofts moft generally in ufe : but it is ne- 

 ceffary to obferve once for all, that great care 

 iliould betaken that the different materials of 

 which the compofts are made be well mixed 

 ^r worked up together ; that there be not too 

 great a quantity of any one fort to overpower 

 and counterad the other j but that the Vv^holc 

 be blended into one mafs in a due proportion^ 



The bed compofts are thofe which ferment 

 the quickeft , and are generally mixed with ma- 

 nure. 



