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MANURES. 



Sect.X. 1 1. 7. 



fionally waflied or fwept. 

 Whereas if wooden moveable fwine-troughs were always placed on 



of the heaps of dry ftraw, the quantity of their fwilL 



hs, from which the refufe is 



the fu 



matter 



confiding of broth, whey, and other vegetable and animal 

 which thefe animals wafte in their contention for it, would generate 

 early putrefactive procelTes ; befides their mixing the fubflances well 

 together with their feet, and adding to it their urine and ordure. 



Befides this inattention to the manure-heap in many houfes the 

 wafliings of boilers, and milk-pans, and difhes, as well as the foap- 



fuds. which are all of them 



man 



of the mod produdive kind 



are thrown into the common fewer, inflead of being derived or car 

 ried to the garden or the ftraw-yard. 



7. Another inattention to the produ61:ion of manures concerns th 

 heaps of common weeds, and of dock-roots, and of cabbage-ftalks 

 and the roots of twitch-grafs ; which improvident farmers and ^-^^ 

 deners frequently throw into the high roads, or confume with fi 



& 



and 



hich if laid on heaps, and occafionally turned 



and 



co- 



vered with fo 



1, will quickly die, and pafs into fpeedy fermentation 

 from the fugar and mucilage, which they contain ; and if to thefe a 

 portion of lime be added, I am informed by one who made the expe- 

 riment, that the whole was decompofed in a fhort time, and manure 

 of the beft kind was the produ6l. 



The fame fhould be pradlfed with the leaves which fall in autumn 



on 



grafs land, efpecially from thofe orchards, or hed 

 oofeberry-trees, which have been infefted with caterpi 



^.^ 



r from 

 fince I 



am told the < 

 pofited on th 

 fuing fprli 



fuch trees, 

 tioned. 



o 



gs of a future race of thefe infers are frequently de^ 

 leaves, and hatched on or beneath the foil in the en- 

 Thefe therefore fliould be removed from the roots of 



d 



rted 



manure 



by the procefs abov 



men 



Along with the weeds and leaves above mentioned I fliould ftrongly 

 recommend to the induftrious agricultor to colled the water-plants 



which 



