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MANURES. 



Sect. X. 



12.4. 



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nure, as cow-dung itfelf, fhould be weekly gathered from 



ground, where 



C) 



fhed, and laid 



heaps with foil 



grafs 



ftraw, or weeds, to ferment or putrefy ; till it becomes lefs 

 and can be profitably replaced in the enfuing fpring. 



Finally, I fufped the moft economical method of difpofino- of th 

 flraw and dung from the farm-yard would be, as foon as a dirk co 

 loured water drains from the heap, by which much lofs is fuftained 

 to carry the refufe of the ftable and cow-houfe, as frequently as con 

 venient, to the 



g 



nd, where it is defigned to be employed ; and 

 there to mix it-with earth in heaps of proper fize, and to cover them 

 hkewife with foil; and by thefe means I fuppofe the whole procefs 

 of decompofition may be carried on with very little lofs ; and by the 

 addition of a greater or lefs quantity of foil that the era of complete 

 or mofl profitable decompofition of the comport may be managed, fo 

 as to coincide nearly with the time it may be wanted 



4. Fourthly, it may be afked, what kinds of ^ manure contribute 



In anfwer to this it 

 , and are furnifhed 



D 



moft to the luxuriant growth of veo-etabl 



may be faid, that as plants 

 with abforbent veflcls in the 

 the ftomach ; that th 



ferior anim 



fam 



fpondent to the ladeals 



fol 



the flomach fupply th 



matters 



which by their quick 



mal 



will 



..........X ..X CM. xtuuiacii luppiy tnc nutritive chyle to animals, wi 



by their flow folution in or near the furface of the earth fupply th 



nutritive fap-juice to vegetables 



Hence all kinds of animal and 



vegetable fubftances, which will undergo a digeftive procefs, or fp 

 taneous folution. .« the flefh, fat, fkin, and bones, of anim ' 



their fecretions of bile, faliva, mucus 



th 



d their excretions of 



and ordure ; and alfo the fruit, meal, oil, leaves, wood, of vegetables 



when properly decompofed 



food to plants 



beneath the foil, fupply th 



moft 



Secondly, the chyle of all animals is fimilar 



the fap-juice of 



getables in this circumftance, that they both contain mucilage and 



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