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Tefufe of foap-boilers : but I am not very fond 

 of compofts fo made, and give the preference 

 to the two above mentioned. 



Soot, pigeons-dung, and rape-duft are all 

 hand-manures j but are better made into com- 

 pofts and applied in drill hufbandry (as re- 

 commended in this Work) than ufed fingly, 



I had laft fummer the fineft garden-cabba- 

 ges and early peas any where to be found, all 

 growing by compoft made in the moft fimpic 

 manner. The cabbages were univerfally al- 

 lowed the beft and forwardeft of any that had 

 been feen that feafon in the Doncafter gardens, 

 which are by far fuperior in refped: to foil. 

 This I attributed to management ; for the na- 

 tural goodnefs of fome of thofe garden foils 

 certainly equals the compoft I ufed in my 

 drills. 



My compoft was made from the fhovelings- 

 up of the fold-yard. I had the manure carri- 

 ed out when the weather was dry ; and, when 

 rain came on, I fet the men to coul and fhovel 

 every part of the bottom of the fold, and like- 

 wife every part where 1 thought any thing ufe- 

 ful might be found. Amongft other things, 



there 



