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Mr. Carpenter also says, common salt is an excellent 
manure, when only slightly mixed with mud, or soil; 
he relates an experiment of 10 acres of rough old pas¬ 
ture, covered with rushes, which, by dressing with a 
compost of soil, mud, and offal salt, after close mowing 
down the rushes, produced, the next year, a matting 
of white clover, cow grass, and yellow vetchling, and 
effected a very great improvement in a short space 
of time. 
But these accounts are rather at variance with other 
very respectable authorities ; Dr. "Nash believes, from 
experience, (and he occupies a respectable farm,) that 
Droitwich salt is neither a manure in itself, nor capable 
of exciting any vegetative principle in the earth ; that 
it produces bad effects on ploughed land, by increasing 
its dryness in hot weather, and by making it greasy, 
and what the farmers call raw in damp weather, and 
that its only use in heaps of compost is to destroy 
weeds, and their seeds. 
Marl is used, in some instances, upon the sandy and 
gravelly soils in the north and north-east of the coun¬ 
ty, but the generality of the land of this county has 
enough of the marly principle in it from nature. 
Where the distance from great towns is too far to 
get manure from them, it is not much a practice to 
sell hay, or straw, but great attention is paid to make 
the most of what the farm produces in dunghiljs, which 
is conveyed annually on the land. Mr. Oldacre, Vale 
of Evesham j he says lime is too dear to be commonly 
used. 
Nature has been bountiful to us; we often put our 
manure immediately on the land from the fold yard ; 
but when we spare it from the arable to the pasture, 
?ve turn it once, and when we clean ditches and ponds 
mix 
