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chase that no one imposes on them, by substi- 
tuting hen, pigeon, or other clung, for the same. 
The Compost, No. 3.^ and No. 4. are very 
excellent, and easy to be procured in the 
countiy. The Compost, No. 5. may not so 
easily be got at, on account of the sugar- 
baker’s scum ; the latter soil is always, I un- 
derstand, to be met with in London, Bristol, 
Liverpool, &c. &c. The sugar-baker’s scum 
might be easily packed in an old hogshead, and 
sent down into the country at a trifling ex- 
pense, if conveyed by water carriage ; it will 
amply reward any one for his trouble. I un- 
derstand the sugar-baker’s scum consists of the 
dross of sugar, a portion of the West India 
mould, fine clay, bullock’s blood, lime-water, 
&c. What is very remarkable, I always ob- 
served wherever sugar-baker’s scum was used 
with other manure, I seldom or ever saw any 
pernicious grubs or insects, or the hard yellow 
wire-worm. The scum of itself will not har- 
bour worms and other insects like any other 
manure; whether it is the lime-water used 
amongst it that destroys them, I am rather at a 
loss to know, but have reason to believe it is 
the case. 
