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matter. But these should generally be applied in 

 compost, of good earth, turf, or sward, or of cow, 

 or other dung of a cool nature ; applying them in 

 quantity according to the cold, or the hot nature, of 

 the soil to be manured ; allowing the compost a suffi- 

 cient time to incorporate, and mixing it thoroughly. 



Marl is a good manure for almost any soil ; and 

 it may be applied as a simple, with as much pro- 

 priety as any of the kinds of cattle-dung, or even of 

 vegetable earth. The kind called shell-marl, is 

 .much to be preferred, and should be freely applied 

 to strong lands, but more sparingly to light ; the 

 loamy kind being best adapted to light lands. 



Stable-dung, if used as a simple, should not be 

 applied in too rank a state, nor should it be much 

 fermented. It should generally lie in a heap for 

 four or five weeks ; during which time it should be 

 turned over once or twice. A ton of it in this state, 

 is worth three that has been used in the hot-bed, 

 and is a year old. This manure, and indeed dung 

 of any kind, when applied as a simple, should 

 never be carried from the heap to the ground, till 

 it is to be digged in ; as, by exposure to the air its 

 virtues evaporate, and it is the less effectual. 



The necessity of the instant application of sea- 

 weed, after landing, if used as a simple, is even 

 greater than the above ; as it instantly corrupts, 

 and its juices flow downwards, and are lost. If this 

 manure be used as a compound, the heap in which it 

 is compounded should be more frequently turned on 

 its account ^ that none of the juices may be lost, but 

 that the other part of the compost may absorb them. 



