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Lung and Excrements • this industrious Man computing it to no Idsthan twenty times, and to the fame advance above this, Hair, Wool,and calc'm’d Bones , &c. and as to the courser Soils, that the Hung of‘Pigeons and Boultry does as far exceed that of Beasts which feed on grossVegetables ; and tells us, it has been found upon experience, that oneLoad of any fort of Seed contains as much Vcrtue as ten load of ordinary‘Dung • and therefore 'tis advisable, that upon all removals of Corn-ncks, Hay-stacks , &c. the Husbandman reserve all he can of the Bot-tom , Offal and Shakings, and to mingle it with Chimney-foot and■Blood, and with that to reduce it into the consistence of a Baste: Tothis add as much dry’d Neats-dung, temper’d with Urine, and madeup in Cakes as big as Houfhold Loves, and after all is well dry’d in the^ hade, crumble them to Dust, to be sifted or sprinkled on the Groundfor a very considerable Improvement' we fay sprinkled, because theyshould never be too thick, especially for Corn, which it either cloys, orover-heats, according as stis qualified : Thus, Bigeons-Hung burns Seedson hot Ground, but is excellent for Barley , &c. lown on the colderMould.

Of like effect is Earth blended with Malt-dust,' or purified and de-Ca y’d Corn redue’d to Meal j so is the Dust of old Furze-bujhes, (inLevonjbire call’d Hr ess ; ) but this last lhould not be taken in Seed-time, lest it infect the Ground with a Plant not easily extirpable.

Lastly, ThcMudof Bonds and stagnant Waters of Hitches, shovel’dUp, and well aird, is best apply’d to Roots of Trees, but especially theLust of unstony High-ways, where the drift of Cattle, and muchPassage is: Let it be carried off from March to ffovember ; for it beingalready a kind of refined Soil continually stirr’d and ventilated, there isuo Compost preferable to it for any use: It is prepar’d in the highest de-gree, and will need no Wintering, but may be us’d immediately ; andlo may Straw, Haulm, and other Litter trampl’d on in dirty Streets,after it is a while rotted and mingl’d. Mr. Ray tells us, that in somePlaces about the Alps, he found them sowing Hust upon the Snow, ashe s upposes, for Manure, and to fertilize the dissolution.

Thus with no little Industry are found out the several kinds of Com-posts, and Materials of Improvement, and what is the most genuine andtrue Medicament of every Soil for Arable, Basture, or Garden . I donot fay all, or as if there were no more; for what if indeed there shouldbe as many sorts of Composts, as there are of Ferments or Salts ; andas many forts of Salts as there be of Vegetables, or any other putrifia-ble matter ? The more there be, tsie greater ought to be our Industryand Skill to be able to distinguish them, and to know how and whensightly to apply them.

Nor is it sufficient to consider the nature of the Earth, Mould , andleveral Composts, but of the very Blants themselves, for the applicati-ons what you administer, be it for Food or Medicine; as if they bec old of Constitution, to make use of the hotter Composts ; if hot, toPrescribe the cold. For instance in a few of the most useful only :

Frait.tr ces do generally thrive with the Soil of Heats and Hogs ;/post Flowers with that of Sheep, but especially Roots . Beter H011--dius tests us ( in his Book intitl’d Hap es inemtœ ) that by the sole ap-plication of Sheeps-dung, he produe’d a Reddijh-root in his Garden asas half a Man's middle, which being hung up for some time in aetcher’s Shop, People took for an Hog.

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