YARD-DUNG. 4^3 



appearance clearly. The best was that which wascoveied 

 with the long manure. 



Thirty years ago they reckoned, near Holkham, that 

 the wheat stubble ploughed in, was as good as a light coat 

 of dung. 



Mr. Bradfield, of Kerattishall, Suffolk, tenant to 

 Mr. Be VAN, carries the yard-dung long from the yard, 

 without any turning or mixing, and spreads it about six 

 weeks before sowing ; ploughs it in fleeter than for the 

 sowing earth, but not so ficei as what is called scaling ; 

 ploughs two or three times after the manuring. 



Mr. Bloomfield's bailiff, in the absence of his mas- 

 ter, gave his opinion in favour of rotten dung, rather than 

 long and unrottcd : however, this year, he says, they used 

 the latter^ and the turnips on bad land, justify an opinion 

 different from his own. 



The Rev. Mr. Priest, at^Scarning, in 1801, on a field 

 that had been unkind for turnips, drew it into baulks, and 

 laid long fresh dung into the furrows, then split the baulks, 

 covering the manure, and drilled the turnips on the tops of 

 the ridges; the crop proved the largest and best in the 

 neighbourhood. His man, not satisfied with this method, 

 and thinking that he could geta better crop, Mr. Priest 

 permitted hnn to try : he laid the land on broadlands, and 

 sprained the seed into every other furrow, but in such a 

 manner, that it came a broad-cast crop and good for httle; 

 because his dung was not buried. 



Mr. Priest, complaining to Mr. Birch am, of Reep- 

 ham, that he had some land on which it was difficult to 

 get turnips, had this answei — Put on your dung in autumn^ 

 and your difficulties luill vanish. 



Mr. Salter, of Winborough, pointing at some dung- 

 hills, observed, that he had now got a year's muck before- 

 hand; over-year muck, he thinks, far preferable to long 

 £64 fresh, 



