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this pradllce was intended folely to enrich the foil, yet it is not 
improbable but this powerful liquor, by being impregnated 
with faline particles, may communicate a warmth to the roots 
of the Vine during the winter, and thereby prove ferviceable 
in 
The farmer would find his labours well rewarded, by conveying this rich liquor 
to the mod convenient part of his farm, which might eafily be done by the help of 
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a water-cart, fuch as is ufed to convey w’ater to lay the dull: in the ftreets and roads, 
about cities and great towns. 
Manure is an article of fuch vafi: importance in hufbandry, that the farmer ought 
to pay the greatcft attention poffible to the enlargement of his dock of dung. It is 
to be w idled that it would become a praftice to dow the farm, fold, and dable- 
yards, with leaves of trees, rotten tan, noxious weeds, faw-dud, moory earth, 
and fuch like materials. Thefe fliould be introduced before the dunghil is formed, 
and diould be laid to a confiderable thicknefs in the lowed part of the yard, as they 
would there receive and imbibe the riches that drain from the dung above. 
If this method of proceeding were introduced, many farmers would have an op- 
portunity of colledling materials, whereby they might increafe their dock of dung 
to mere than twice its ufual quantity. 
Although foils of different qualities admit of improvement by various modes 
of pradfice, yet without the aid of manure, the farmer w'ould find his utmod 
exertions of but little value. And though fome have endeavoured to prove 
that the earth, when duly pulverized by the adllon of the plough, does not 
require manure,* yet experience tells us, that it is the very life and foul of huf- 
bandry ; and when judicioudy applied on almod every kind of foil, its effedl will 
feldom difappoint the expedtation of the farmer. 
* Mr. Tull., in his neiv hufbandry, tells us, that where the ground is properly 
naged, manure is an ujelefs article. But his opinion is now generally and jujlly 
ploded. 
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