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 rine and mu- 



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SeCT.X. 12. 2. 



MANURES 



5 



feed 



of wheat 



. or where knobby or bulbous roots are to be 

 fenJd to" produce other knobs or bulbs beneath the foil,^as potat^oes 

 it is probably more advantageous 

 compofed ftate, wh 



fome of th 



bury th 

 flraw 



form 



fs de- 

 as fuch 



parts by their flower decompofition will longer prevent the fuper-m. 

 cumbent foil from becoming too folid ; and though^they w.ll >n thr 

 fituation require fome time before they will be pctfedly decompof 



ed. and reduced 



the black carbonic earth ; yet they will ni 



th 



end totally decay, and give the fame quantity of nutriment to th 



though it may be more gradually applied 



I 



fped 



the time of year thofe manures, which are to be 

 plouc^heVoTdug into the ground, (hould be ufed immediately before 

 rowing the feeds or fetting the roots, which they are defigned ^ 

 ture ; becaufe the atmofph 



which is buried along with the 



manure 



or even month 

 foot on walkin 



the interftices of the earth, and which for many weeks, 



nders the foil loofe, and eafily impreffed by the 



r on it, gradually evolves by its union with carbon a 



heat very friendly to vegetation in this climate, as well as the 

 .mmediate produdion of much fluid carbonic acid, and probably of a 

 fluid mixture of nitrogen with hydrogen, which arc believed to fup- 



ply much nutriment to plants. 



But thofe manures, which are defigned to be fpread on the furface 



& 



1 



of -rafs-land. which is called the top-dreffing, are heft applied 



I 



fufpea, in the early fprin 

 moft in a {late of powder 



d {hould be difperfed over the foil al 

 11 lumps of very loofe cohefion j 



as at 



the vernal {bowers wafh them 



the foil ; and they 



There are fome 



applied to the roots of the grafs, before their e{rentkl parts are dimi 

 ni{hed by winter rains or by fummer exhalation. ^' ''' 



Derby{hire, who fpread manure even on the meadows, which are an- 

 nually overflowed by the Trent or Derwent, at the end of fummer, 

 or as foon as the grafs is mowed and removed ; which appears to be 

 an improvident management, fincc the aftermath, or autumnal grafs, 



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