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there might be one cart-load of human excre- 

 ment from the necefTary. I had a feeding 

 paflure, which in one corner produced nothing 

 but nettles, docks, and other uftlefs weeds : the 

 compoft was piled up in a heap on that fpot, 

 I ordered the men to dig round, and fod it a- 

 bout twelve inches thick round the fides and 

 top, fo as to inclofe the infide materials with 

 a perfedt cruft. The manure thus inclofed, 

 being moift and rich, fermented very much for 

 about fourteen days. When I perceived that 

 the fermentation was checked, and the heap 

 grew coolj I ordered it to be removed to a 

 place where I had prepared about ten loads of 

 manure made by pigs, horfes. Sec. during the 

 time the firft heap had been fermenting. The 

 laft-mentioned manure had been made by hor- 

 fes and cows from green fodder and wheat- 

 ftraw chopped, as before recommended, and 

 by pigs in the fold where the manure was laid. 

 There had been fome couch-grafs roots laid 

 for about three years with fome foil in them of 

 a poor nature: thefe amounted to feveral loads, 

 and we incrufted the frefh manure with the 

 iiril-mentioned compoft, in the fame manner 

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