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having procui’ed some fresh night soil, which 
I mixed up in a hole dug for that purpose, and 
let it remain there for ten or twelve months. 
After this process, I threw it on the surface of 
the ground, and let it remain till it got dry and 
stiff enough to barrow away and mix with 
other soil. The proportionable quantity of this 
soil comes nearly, or quite, to the same quan- 
tity of loam as used in No. 2. which is one- 
fourth. I therefore shall give this as my 
second receipt, and also class it imder the 
head of 
No. 2. 
4 Barrowsful of loam steeped in night 
soil and urine, 
2 Ditto of goose dung mixed with bul- 
lock’s blood, 
2 Ditto of sugar-baker’s scum, 
8 2 Pecks of sea sand. 
Having given you an account of the process 
for preparing the Composts, No. 1. and No. 2. 
(which by some may be considered foolishly 
troublesome and unnecessary ; but this I ven- 
ture to assert, that it is not to be excelled) it 
causes the plants to thrive, and increase as 
rapidly as couch or quick grass in the fields. 
