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/ 



/ 



ct 



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:J 



Of k. 



7t. 





ould 



ibt. 



geiier 



er, 



ate 



^^^s ^vdl 



re. 



'J ordu 

 ■>■ houfes the 



the foan. 



a 



^^<^ivekind 



^rived or car- 



I 



concerns the 



abb:ge-{lalks, 

 '^'*'"s and gar- 



nc with fire 



I 



Dver, and co- 

 fermentation 



j if to thefe a 

 -de theexpe- 

 . and manure 



• jl in auturon 



req 



uently ^e- 



01 



il ii^ 



1 



the en- 

 roots 



; above 



men' 



(T 



!r 



I 



ou 



Id ftronS'^' 



Sect. X. 12. 



which grow 



MANURES 



r 



bundance in lakes and 



of manure 



which at prefent are employed to no advanta 



249 



for the purpofe 



re. Thefe 



:ig™;ov;d ;;;;;; ye., . . ■. ,ro.M. th. there vegetables 



their younger ftate, as the typh 



cat's-tail ; the butomus, or 



uymphsa and'aiifma, as well as many other aquatic 

 plants, would give better manure, or fooner become fufficiently de- 



J 



flowering-rufti 



compofed, during their more facchariue and mucilaginous ftate. th 



when they have acquired 



more 



fibrous leaves, and more 



dy 



flems 



By thus 



pofi 



. the roots and tops of weeds to fermentat 



their feeds would alfo be deflroyed as well as th 



^ 



pow 



of their roots ; and 



th 



the hay-feeds colleifted from 



ftacks, which have fermented too violently, fo as to become black by 



this now combuftion, are frequently fo much injured as not to vege- 

 tate, to the great difappointment of the fower, a circumftance which 



alfo fometimes occurs in ftacks of wheat, as mentioned in Sc&. 



XVI. 7 



8 



Laftly, peat, fo well underftood and fo ftrongly recommended 



by Lord Dundonald, is too much neglefted 



or 



turf 



hich conftitutes the folid parts of morafTt 



The peat 

 as it confifts 



of ve<^etable fibres in different flates of decompofition, may be laid 

 clayey or fandy foils with the greateft advantage ;^^nd,^,;^g|^t to^e 



confidered as an ineftimable treafure to the farms in its vicinity 

 it may previoufly be laid on heap 



and th 



mixed with air and 



drained from w 

 addition of lime. 



for further decompofition, with 



without the 



As th 



XII. APPLICATION OF MANURES. 



Two queftions of importance here prefent themfelves 

 fpontaneous or chemical changes of manure-heaps in farm-yards gra 

 dually progrede from the facrharine and mucilaginous commence 



Kk 



ment 



