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ment made by himsell' — 67 small cart-loads of fresh yard dun^^ 

 produced two successive crops of potatoes, yielding together 

 742 bushels ; at the same time, the same quantity of yard dung, 

 after six months rotting, yielded 708 bushels, leaving [to the 

 fresh long dung] a superiority of 34 bushels. But had the fresh 

 dung been kept as long as the other, it would have required at 

 least twice, perhaps thrice as much, to have produced the quan- 

 tity used." [That is, twice or three times 67 loads of fresh 

 long dung, if kept and often turned and mixed to produce fer- 

 mentation and rotting, would have shrunk, or been reduced, to 

 67 loads of short rotten dung.] " If the crops therefore had 

 been only equal, still the advantage [of the fresh dung] would 

 have been most decisive." 



" I shall not quit (says Mr. Young) the Husbandry of two 

 mea who carried tillage, on soils so extremely different, to its 

 utmost perfection, without remarking the circumstances in which 

 they agreed. Both were equal friends to deep ploughing ; both 

 rejected the common repetition of tillage, and reduced the num- 

 ber of their operations to a degree that merits attention; both 

 rejected fallows ; and both ploughed deeply for depositing ma- 

 nure, without any apprehension of losing it. These are very 

 important points in Practical Agriculture." 



To this account of the successful practices of these two cele- 

 brated English Farmers, it may be useful to subjoin a few ob- 

 servations. I have thought it proper so far to present them in 

 detail, in order to develop principles ; not expecting a precise 

 adoption of their practices ; which, indeed, without their or sim- 

 ilar superiour ploughs and other implements, would be imprac- 

 ticable : but with such instruments as we possess, or may easily 

 obtain, we can materially increase the depth of our ploughing, 

 and I hope contrive effectually to cover our manure. This 

 should be wholly applied to Tillage Crops ; for which the manur- 

 ing should be so ample as to insure a succession of good crops 

 through the whole rotation, without the aid of any additional 

 manure, especially for wheat, rye, barley or oats : for besides 

 increasing the seeds of weeds (with which all our lands are too 

 m uch infested) such additional manuring, immediately applied to 

 ihe small grain crops, renders them more liable to injury from 



