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ter be paid their wages, and be sent to bed, than be 

 thus employed. 



There is another error I wish to point out, viz. 

 The wheeling out of dung, and laying it in barrow- 

 loads on the borders or quarters, where it is not in- 

 tended, perhaps, to be digged in for months. The 

 wheeling out of manure is certainly a very proper bu- 

 siness in hard weather; and it is equally proper to lay 

 the necessary quantity on each particular spot. But 

 why lay it out to a certain waste and loss, when 

 that waste can be saved with so little trouble, name- 

 ly, the laying it in a compact heap, and covering it 

 with a little earth ? This trouble, and that of 

 spreading it out at the time of cropping the ground, 

 can by no means counterbalance the loss of the 

 virtues of the manure ; which are either exhaled 

 by the action of the atmosphere, or bleached away 

 by heavy rains. If these little heaps lie long, the 

 spots under them are too much manured, and the 

 intervening spaces too little ; and so of course the 

 crops rise unequally, and are often partly lost; 

 some places being too scant of crop, and in other 

 places the crop going off by scald. 



