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same time to have some fine strong yellow 
loam and some sugar-baker’s scum in readi- 
ness by me. This said Compost of goose dung 
and bullock’s blood, &c. I used to mix up my- 
self, for I tiusted to no one to mix my fine 
Auricula mould, neither would I at that time 
allow any one to see me mix up the separate 
quantities, although I had frequently been 
asked in the course of my lifetime (perhaps 
five hundred times) how and in what manner 
I mixed and prepared my soil, and what it * 
consisted of. 
Should you happen to live in a part where 
goose dung cannot easily be obtained, you may 
substitute sheep dung. 
It may appear somewhat singular, that I 
measure the different soils by the barrow in- 
stead of the bushel ; but it is well known that 
the working gardener always has his barrow at 
hand, and generally metes out his loam, dung, 
&c. by it. 
Compost, No. 1. 
3 Barrowsful of goose dung steeped in 
bullock’s blood, 
3 Ditto of sugar-baker’s scum, 
2 Ditto of fine yellow loam. 
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