896 Manure and Tillage.[Dec

For my part I have always found that manures, well em- Ployed, prowoted»pulverization; and 1 have often observed tbat their application, under veryändifferent culture, produced better crops than covpld be obtained without them, when the ?illage was of the most perfect kind. No modern practical husbandman, however, wil] deny that the greatest benefit proceeds from good manuring and perfect Hllage.

But, Sir, the delicate palates and refined taste of Messrs.

Tull, Duhawel and Co. were offended by the flavour of plants> which were raised upon dung! and this was, in their minds, a mighty objection lo its application. What a zaucea they would bave experienced in consuming the plants of Flanders, where the husbandmen, mos? judiciously, apply 10 their grounds, all the uigkt-Sozl they, can obtain! What object of Pity their plantasma would have rendered them under Such disagreeable s--ks and flavours!! Alas! poor men, they wonld have hurried from the country of plentiful, but poZuted, harvests, to enjoy the plants of“ a natural Soll." Nay, they would, with inercased ardour, have advised others to prefer comparative sterility to the bountiful rewards:of applying the most enriching manures with judicious fillage: and all this for a reason-+“ a flavour" of which almost all other men deny'the existence. Let their opinions, then, receive from“ Tyro Alter,"'and every other Vyro in our husbandry, their merited contempt. - Perhaps it is true that Some inseets are bred'and harboured in dung; but notwithstanding this circumstance, if youvy correspondent will make an accurate relative trial upon a few adjoining ridges, he will 50on be convinced of the advantages ot applying that manure.

I believe Some insects are more apt to harbour in recent dung;(viz. muck in a loug state) than in that which has been well fermented; iLis advisable, th erefore, to promote this pro- cess before it be used. Muck thus managed als0'becomes'of a more valuable nature in other respects. There are cases, however, in whicbrit is most beneficially applied before it is much roited. In this rather long state, I bave found it best for-potatvesz and for wheat on Some very Strong lands These very venaceous s0ils are.opened,«and tertilized, by. its fermentation after being mixed with them.

Quick lime will destroy certain Seeds, and, perhaps, Some insects; but, in'Such a hot state, it will also destroy, or njure, a very considerable part of the dung. have scen half-rotten muck fired by Such lime; and I have no doubt of its reducing partof that which is thoroughly putnified 10 a kind of cin- der, in which. State Dy experience' has convinced me that