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cow house, from each stall of which the urine is 

 conducted to a common grating, through which it falls 

 into the vault ; from thence it is taken up by a pump. 

 This kind of manure is rehed on beyond any other 

 upon all the light soils through Flanders, and even up- 

 on the strong lands, is coming into great esteem, being 

 considered lit for most crops and all vai'ieties of soil. 

 May it not then be pressed upon your notice ? In 

 England and Scotland it is Uttle known ; in Ireland, 

 not at all. Where farm offices are to be built, the 

 additional cost of forming them upon vaults, and re- 

 gulating the flag-ging and pavement, so as to fill those 

 vaults, would be soon repaid by the advantage of the 

 best kind of manure, which at present is suffered 

 to flow away in waste. Even to offices already 

 built — even to the poor man's single shed, a cistern 

 or tub might be added. — Nothing more is required 

 than that rain or any other water should be kept out. 

 The collection made in winter fi'om turnips, rape, (for 

 rape is a very fine green food) and cabbage, &c. would 

 be a great source of feitility ; but if once connected 

 with a regular soiling system, the increase would be 

 immense. By an extensive cultivation of rape, and 

 by the general estabhshment of these cisterns, to what 

 pitch of improvement and produce might not our light 

 lands be advanced ? If it be a fact that, upon a 

 Flemish farm, the urine of 44 head of cattle, with 

 the addition of 12,000 rape cakes of 21bs. each, is 

 sufficient to manure in the best manner, twenty-one 

 English acres, the owner of a rape mill on Irish 

 moors, who could house 100 head of cattle, might 

 venture on the improvement of a very extensive tract 

 with every prospect of success. 



