126 Method of Converting Vegetables into Manure . 
No. 24. 
A quick and easy Method of converting Weeds and other 
Vegetable Matter into Manure . By Mr . Brown, of 
Derby,* 
I BEG leave to communicate to the Society, and, if 
thought worth notice, by them to the world, a composi- 
tion for manure. Fearful it would not answer the pur- 
pose so fully as I could wish, I deferred it from year to 
year; but I now find, both by numerous trials made by 
my friends, as well as myself, the very great utility of 
the composition, as well as its cheapness, with the capa- 
bility of its being made in any situation and in any quan- 
tity. The mode of making it is as simple as, I trust, it 
will be found productive. It is nothing more than green 
vegetable matter, decomposed by quick or fresh-burnt 
lime. A layer of the vegetable matter about a foot thick, 
then a very thin layer of lime, beat small, and so on ; 
first vegetable, then lime, alternately. After it has been 
put together a few hours, the decomposition will begin 
to take place ; and unless prevented, either by a few sods, 
or a forkfull of the vegetables at hand, it will break out 
into a blaze, which must at all events be prevented. In 
about twenty-four hours the process will be complete, 
when you will have a quantity of ashes ready to lay on 
your land at any time you wish. Any and all sorts of 
vegetables, if used green, will answer the purpose ; say 
weeds of every description. They will doubly serve the 
farmer, as they will not only be got at a small expense, 
but will in time render his farm more valuable, by being 
deprived of all noisome weeds. 
* Tillocb, vol. 3, p. 32. From tlie Transactions of the Society for the Encou => 
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