The principles of agriculture and vegetation / By Francis Home.

  • Francis Home
Date:
1759
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Credit: The principles of agriculture and vegetation / By Francis Home. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    canal, on the nature of the juices mixed with the aliment there, and on the natural heat of the body. , Let us now make fome practical obier- vations with regard to the management of dunghills: for this is an affair of confider- able importance, and in which farmers feem to be very ignorant. Dry vegetables require a confiderable degree of moifture before they can be brought to putrefy. I think dunghills are generally kept too dry, as they are com¬ monly in this country placed on a high fituation, and are themfelves railed to a confiderable height. A hollow fituation, which will retain the moifture, is the beft. Too much moifture is likewife bad* This may be prevented, by having hollow places, with clay bottoms, at the fide of the dung¬ hill, into which the fuperfluous moifture may be allowed to run, and from whence it may be reftored again by pumps to the dunghill at pleafure. G 3 BtJX