from ten feet to fifty if required ; four or five 
feet wide at bottom, drawing into a fliarp 
ridge at top four or five feet high ; which 
will allow for fettling. 
For private ufe, a fingle bed of about 
ten or fifteen feet in length may be fully 
fufficient. But for the fupply of the London 
markets, long parallel ranges are made, from 
twenty to fifty feet in length. 
Provide therefore a proportionate quantity 
of the belt frefh horfe-ftable dung and litter,, 
warm and moifl, rejecting fuch as Is dry and 
decayed, and fuch as has already exhaufled 
its fermenting property. Let this be taken 
long and Ihort as It comes to hand; and as it is 
brought in, tofs it up together in an heap, 
carefully mixing, that the whole mafs may 
acquire an equal degree of heaL 
Thus 
