1804-1 On Dung, Compost, and Lime. 17

wonths, it is clear that when the latter animal can be properly Supported on the produce of five, the former(when four oxen are Severely laboured against two horses) will require e that of about 51X acres annually.

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ON DUNG, COMPOST, AND LIME. To the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine.

Si1R, Dec. 24, 1803.

INDING by your last number that your useful pages are

open to the enquiries of Novices, I am emboldened to re- quest information through the channel of your Magazine, and as 1! am now conceined as a practical agriculturis+, and ex- tremel) desirous of such instruction as may- enable me to PurSsue the most advantageous modes of management;[ Jatter my- Self that Some of your able and experience ed GONE pondents will reach their helping hand to me. 1, as well as my.bro- ther,“ a Novice," have heard much in favour of coal, coaly matter, or what phitosophers Ss call carbon, as a manure; and 1 have attentively read a letter im your Jast number,"Signed << Hibernieus" who states a good deal relative to this Substance. Still, however, 1 do not fully understand what kind of coal it 15, or where ItI1s to be purc hased or raised; and will therefore be much obliged to him if he will condescend to be more mi- nute in his description of it, ia of its nature and eifects, This correspondent after stating(at'page 351) a good deal that I am Sorry to Say 1 cannot Gen IE but which ne- vertheless is, I presume, well founded, Says,“ and this is the reason of the benefits resulting from the application of dung before it has putrified." Now, Sir, this really per wlicsger me exceedingly, for my father, who was an old practical farmer, gave me Strict orders always to have my dur ng: well rotted, Stating that one load of uc h was Superior to two loads in a Jong State: your correzpondent Seems of a dif

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rent opinion, and 11y brother Novice states, that he has observed the crops

il of““ Phil oSOphers" more productive than those ol their.ne m bours, owing principally to their

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ves additional weight to the o)] pinion oi hplalosoplucal ARUNBGECE Hibernicus, butin opp must State, that the fpract Ce of 50me oft the farmet! neighbourhood 135 to app iy their dung atter it is well putrific

and they 1

c 1ntain[1 at they obt an 1 101C> producuve CLO0P5 ot

turaiDs'orn afier it, thau when the duns 1s applied tresh or lone 5»wever, do contend for the Superiority ofthe 'f[1] 1 17 7a

Ja by they are deemed ratlier Slovenly farmers.. It

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