60 MANURES. 
I have thus, reader, given you a few of the ways 
by which you may convert your peat bogs and swamps 
into manure, when you have neither cattle nor hogs. 
I have not thought it worth while to go into this sub¬ 
ject further, and give you directions for lime and salt, 
or other matters which might be used. I have given 
you the most common, and those well known and at 
hand. All you want, then,, to apply these principles 
of forming composts, is to give them that little atten¬ 
tion which will enable you to understand them. And 
the rest must be left to your practical common sense, 
without some share of. which, farming, like every¬ 
thing else, would be vanity and vexation of' spirit. 
