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che ſeaſon the mannre colleted in the yard 1s carried out
and laid in heap3 to complete the rotting of it; and in three
or four months theſe heaps are ready for uſe. This is an important circumſtance in the right management of farm- yard dung, though not ſo much attended to as it ought to be. The proper degree of corruption which makes dung the fitteſt for being applied to corn or graſs land, is one of the moſt important ſpeculations for the Board to enquire af- ter. In afew places cattle are fattened upon turnips, given
in the yard; and it has been found that the crop of turnips pays well, even when they are applied to carry on a lean ſtock. This pratice adds greatly to the quantity of manure, but can only be attained where there is great command of firaw. Conſiderable quantities of manure are alſo got from
the many manufacturing villages in the county. The dung
and ſullage of the towns are uſed in great quantities, and
carried by farmers to the diſtance of three miles: the price
15 from 10 d. to 28. 6d. per cubic yard; the average price
may be about 18 d. Conſfiderable attention 15 paid, in tbe
large farm-yards, to the proper conſtruction of dunghills.
In the country-»are ſeveral very large diſtilleries, where
great numbers of black cattle, and a few ſwine, are fatten- ed: the dung which they produce is believed to be the
richeſt in the county, one cart load of it being reckoned
equal to two of what is produced on a common farm. The
ſuperior quality is aſcribed partly to the food on. which
the cattle are fattened, being. the grain and waſh from the
ſtills; and partly that the cattle are very /caztzly Zttered,
owing to the great number of them, when compared with
the quantity of ſtraw, which the diſtillers can procure. Far-
mers in general now value ſtraw ſo highly that very little is
fold; infſomuch that owners of eſtates, though unwilling to
engage in the operoſe buſineſs of farming, are compelled to
Plow up a field now and then, to procure ſiraw for littering, heir horſes and cattle.
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