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for nothing. This comparifon will hold good 

 in refped to the compoft I have recocnmended. 

 The manure mud be full of fap and juices, and 

 of a ftrong quality, and worked up in a proper 

 time, fo as not to lofe the virtue poireflcd ; or 

 it will be as ineffedtual as dry bones broken. 

 Any man who underftands brewing will com- 

 prehend what is meant by evaporation and ex- 

 halation, and will tell you that either may be 

 carried fo far as to difcharge all humidity, and 

 leave only a dry and almoft ufelefs lump be- 

 hind. 



Lime differs fo much in quality, that I will 

 not pretend to fay it can never be mixed to ad- 

 vantage in any coaipoft : but I can fay that I 

 fiever found it anfwer. There is one general 

 rule, however, that I recommend to the farmer : 

 if he can by attention and art procure manure 

 upon his own farm, not to fpend both his mo- 

 ney and time in feeking it far from home. If 

 the value of flraw, when eaten by cattle, and 

 the dung made into compoft, were confidered, 

 it w^ould be nearly as dear as hay. He who 

 fells the whole of the produce from his farm, is 

 M foolifh as the boy in the fable who killed hi&. 



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