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CULTIVATION of the VINE. 



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manure for loomy or clay grounds to warm, to open and 

 ^ to dry them, and efpecialiy if a large quantity of fand, be 

 mixed with it; creek mud, or the mud along the fides of 

 rivers thrown on in the fall, or thrown up and fwcetcned all 

 winter and laid on in the fpring, is a rich manure for fandy 

 lands, or for clay and loomy lands if mixed with a good 

 quantity of fand. All warm rich untried earth is excel- 

 lent, fo is flreet dirt of cities. Come we now to what 

 may be for the moft part in every farmer's power to pro- 

 cure: And firO: ic will be proper at certain feafons of the 

 year, when the grafs is free from feeds to pen his cattle 

 and flicep in Ibme convenient pli^ce, where the dung will 

 not wallx away, and as near to his vineyard or houfe as 

 may be; into this pen let him thro v his ftraw of all 

 kinds, that is free from grafs feeds, his buckwheat flraw^ 

 chaff and duft, his old fait hay or bog hay; if he lives 

 near to marflies or lalt meadows, let him cut good fto^e of 

 reed, when it is near ripe, thatch, courfe three Iquare and 

 fedge,, let It be dried and brought into the pen; then 

 let him get rich black foil, that fettles in low places and the 

 bottom of ponds, that are dry or partly dry in fummer, 

 and what fettles along the fides of brooks and rivers, and 

 throw thefe in, let him get good (lore of leaves of every 

 kind, and throw all the foap fuds, chamberlye, the blood 

 of beads, pork and beef pickle, cyder and beer emptyings, 

 and greefy difh-water, the water that fdt meat has been 



boiled in all thefe contribute greatly to make very rich 



manure. 



The nextbefl method for making good flore of manure 



is to throw moH: or all of the above materials into a pretty 



larre ho^ pen; (if tlie hogs arc fed with red clover, cut 



green, when it is about two thirds grown, and fo on till 



the feed be grown but not ripe, this niowed twice or three 



times a day, and givcfi to the hogs is an eafy and cheap 



wav (^f feeding them, and vvill make a rich manure,) hojs 



will champ with their mouths and trample with their 



iharp pointed hoofs thefe materials, and make them fine 



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