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as defcribed in the firfl: indance, or, as I faid 

 above, like an apple in a dumpling. Some 

 rain fell ihortly after, which caufed a fccond 

 fermentation, and a very ftrong one, I fuffer- 

 ed it to ferment until fcarce any fmoke or va- 

 pour could be perceived to arife. I then or- 

 dered it to be turned over, and mixed the 

 couch-grafs roots and all together. 1 found 

 the hill of.compoft very rich : if I had not 

 known there had been fuch a quantity of earth 

 in the compofition, I Ihould never have given 

 credit to any one who had aflerted the compoft 

 to have been made with fo fmall a quantity 

 of what is termed manure. 



I had fixed my plan for fetting the cabbage- 

 plants, and intended this compoft only for them, 

 ■ and for one acre of forward peas. As I knew 

 my quantity of manure did not exceed twenty 

 loads at firft ; that the laft ten loads added, if 

 fairly rotted down, could not be eftimated at 

 more than five loads ; and that the firft ma- 

 nure, by being flioveled, muft have accumula- 

 ted fome fmall portion of earth ; I was furpri- 

 {cdy when the hill was turned over, to find near 

 fourfcorc cart-loads of compoft by meafurc- 



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