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cal calculations, it will give a profit of $ 30 per acre, 
when cut green, and fed in the barn-yard, either by 
horses, cows, cattle, or hogs, besides the profits upon 
the manure. If you are in earnest about your farm., 
you may carry this mode of making manure to any 
extent, by mowing and carting in your stout stubble; 
collecting and carting in your coarsest hay, pumpkin', 
and potatoe vines, corn bottoms, husks, &c. The 
same materials will yield you a stronger and richer 
manure from your hog-pens, than from the stercorary, 
(as is practised in England,) and without the expense 
of shifting, orchanging it by hand, as in the stercora- 
ry practice. Your hogs will do better than in a close 
pen, and the same land, in clover, will yield them 
more and better feed, than in pasture ; and the ma- 
nure thus obtained from the clover-field, will give you 
a handsome profit. A little experience will soon lead 
every farmer to make the most advantage in this way, 
which may be rendered very extensive*. 
Most farmers yard their cows at night, through the 
summer ; their manure should be collected into a 
heap, in some convenient part of the barn-yard, to 
prevent its being wasted by the sun and rains; a 
few minutes attention in the morning, when the cows 
are turned out to pasture, would collect a heap of 
several loads ina season, ready for your wheal, or grass 
grounds in autumn. If you should carton, and cover 
your heap occasionally, with a load or two at a time, 
of rich earth, (where it could be spared,) it would 
commix with the manure by fermentation, and be- 
come rich compost, and thus increase your (|uantity 
and your wealth. If you stable your horses occa 
sionally, or generally, in summer, let this manure 
also be conveyed to your heap, it will improve its 
quality, by being mixed with the other manure and 
the earths. Four good loads of this manure, will 
* Farmers who live on tlie sca-c<iast, or ua\ igabie l ivei-s, may ile- 
rive great advantage from the white-fish, and, alewives, aj feed for 
their liog?, and thus increase both their pork, and manure. 
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