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MANURES, 
[chap. II. 
hill with earth, into which the gases will rise 
during the process of fermentation, and in 
which they will deposit the greater part of 
their nutritious properties. A quantity of 
earth should also be laid round the dunghill 
to imbibe the liquid that runs from it, and 
this earth, part of which must be removed 
and fresh added every time the dunghill is 
turned over, will be found very nearly as va¬ 
luable for manuring the beds of a garden, 
as the manure itself. 
The modes of applying manure differ ac- 
cording to the difference of the soils. For 
sandy loams, thoroughly rotten dung, either 
from an old hotbed, or from a dunghill suffi¬ 
ciently decayed to be cut easily with the 
spade, or the earth that has covered a dung¬ 
hill during the process of fermentation, should 
be laid on the surface of the soil, and dug in. 
In very poor sandy soils rotten manure, or 
earth from a dunghill, should be laid on the 
surface of the soil, and not dug in: being 
covered, if hot dry weather be expected, 
with leaves, straw, or the branches of trees 
cut off in pruning; or occasionally sprinkled 
with water. Soils of this description, and 
