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compofl: being folded up in the naanner defcri- 

 bcdy the plants, though (landing in a poor fields 

 have a rich foil to feed on and grow in, like a 

 fat horfe in a poor pafturc, but plentifully ftA 

 with corn^ 



The different things ufed in agriculture un-* 

 derthe general name o^fnanure^ differ eflenti al- 

 ly in their nature, and ainnoft as much as to 

 the proper time for ufing them. For inftance r 

 if, to make bone-manure, the bones of a horfe 

 be sround within one month after his death, 

 and then the bones of another which has been 

 dead twelve >v4rj— (this I have known to be 

 the cafe) can any one fuppofe the old dry bones 

 Capable of rendering the fame fervice as thofe 

 which are gfeen, and confequently replete with 

 dil ? Or can bones which have been boiled for 

 the exprefs purpofe of extradling all the oil be 

 equally ufeful with thofe which abound in jui- 

 ces ? May not this difference in refpecft to the 

 ftate of the bones be often thecaufe of the dif- 

 ference in opinion concerning their ufe ? One 

 farmer will extol the ufe of bones, another will 

 depreciate them fo far as to fay they are good 



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