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METHOD OF CONVERTING WEEDS AND OTHER VEGETABLE MATTER INTO MANURE. To the Editor of zhe Agricultural Magazine. SIR,; HE following article is an extract of a letter from Mr. H, Brown of Derby, which I think may very well rest on its own merit; and I am the more disinclined to obtrude my remarks, because of the complete denudation(if I may So express myself) of the principles of the following method (although vot of their application) in a long Series of letters, introduced into the late numbers of your Magazine. You will judge of the propriety of the insertion, and with your decision 1 am sure 1 Shall be perfectly Satisfied.

“ According to a promise I made some years Since, I beg leave, to communicate to the Society for the encouragement of arts,&c. and(if thought worth notice) by them to the world, a compogition for manure. Fearful it would not answer the purpose so fully as'I[ could wish, 1 deferred it from year to year: but I now find, by numerous trials made by my friends as well as by myself, the very great utility of the composition, as well as its cheapness, with ihe capability of its being made in any Situation, and in any quantity. The mode of making it Is as Simple, as I trust it will be found productive. It is nothing more than green vegetable matter, decomposed by quick or fresh-burnt Jime. Upon a Jayer of vegetable matter, about a foot thick, a very thin layer of lime, beaten Small, is to be laid, and so on vegetable matter, then lime al- ternately. Aſter they have been put together a few bours, the decomposition will begin to take place; and, unless pre- vented, either by a few sods or a fork-tall of the vegetables at hand, the mixture will break out into a blaze, which must be