This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1795. Excerpt: ... STABLE, FARM YARD DUNG, AND COMPOSTS. When Cato was asked what was the best system of farming, he thrice answered, that the best system of farming was to procure food for cattle; a reply which refers to obvious consequences, and requires no explanation. Although it is a common saying in Scotland, that c muck is the mother of the meal chest," still there is no country where the preservation of the urine of cattle, and the juices of dung-heaps, are so little attended to; or where the farmers, in general, are at so little pains to procure the greatest quantity of an article so indispensably necessary to the obtaining abundant crops. In England, the farmers are much more attentive to the making and collecting this species of manure, and their conveniencies of farm-yards, and other...