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by keeping to an unprofitable degree, and that the more it 

 is turned over, the worse: lie has tried long muck, fresh 

 from the yard, for turnips, and got as good by it as by 

 any other ; and tiie barley also as good. The difficulty is 

 to get it buried : he has employed boys to tuck it in : he 

 approves much of the idea oi' the skim coulter. 



Extras of a Letter from yl/r. Johnson. — " Where 

 lands are unkind for turnips, straw may be converted into 

 muck with profit, by feeding the pigs with pease in the 

 yards ; and the muck kind for turnips ; the quality of the 

 muck depends on what the animals is fed wuh ; muck 

 made from turnip-fed beasts is better for grass or wheat, 

 than for turnips : if beasts have nothing but straw and 

 turnips, it is not so kind for turnips as muck made in straw- 

 yards from other food." 



Mr. England, of Binham, carts his yard-muck or4 

 to heaps in the winter, and turns up the rest in the yard, 

 to get it rotten for the turnip-seed earth, and thinks it 

 would lose its virtues if carried on long : on strong land it 

 may do, carried on in winter, for turnips, and has done it 

 on such a soil with good effedt. He has no doubt of the 

 superiority of rotten muck for turnips, but is against 

 keeping it over-year, 



Mr. Reeve, of Wighton, carts his yard-muck on to 

 heaps, and turns them twice, to destroy the seeds of weeds, 

 and the shorter the better, provided it be in a fermenting 

 state: eight load of short are as good as twelve long ; but 

 over-year muck bad, as fermentation in that is over. He 

 ba^tged long and fresh dung, but it has not answered so 

 good a purpose. He lays on all his muck for turnips; 

 none for wlieat. 



Mr. Reeve is clear that all straw should be trodden 

 ij^o aiuck> and none eaten. He has kept, a large dairy ot 



cows. 



