| Alexander Hunter - 1803 - 638 pages
...than others, it is material to attend to this ; for a much lefs proportion of such dung as is lefs advanced, will serve for the compost, provided care is taken to keep the mafs sufficiently open, either by a mixture of the above-mentioned substances, or, if these are wanting,... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1830 - 706 pages
...stack-yard, potato-shaws, sawings of timber, &c. And as some sorts of dung, even when fresh, are much more advanced in decomposition than others, it is...substances, or if these are wanting, by adding the moss piece-meal, that is, first mixing it up in the usual proportion of three to one of dung, and then,... | |
| 1840 - 532 pages
...stack-yards, potato shaws, sawings of timber, &c. And as some sorts of dung, even when fresh, are much more advanced in decomposition than others, it is...either by a mixture of the above-mentioned substances, ur if these are wanting, by adding the peat piecemeal, that is, first making it up in the usual proportion... | |
| Cuthbert William Johnson - 1842 - 1364 pages
...stackyard, potato-shaves, sawings of timber, &c. ; and as some sorts of dung, even when fresh, are much more advanced in decomposition than others, it is...usual proportion of three to one of dung, and then adding, after a time, an equal quantity more or less of moss. The dung oí this quality of greatest... | |
| Sir John William Dawson - 1856 - 290 pages
...attend to this ; for a much less proportion .of such dung, especially if abounding in animal matter, as is less advanced, will serve for the compost, provided...piece-meal, that is, first making it up in the usual propori.on of thr^feo one of dung, and then, after a time, adding an equal quantity, more or less,... | |
| Thomas Green Fessenden - 1857 - 672 pages
...attend to this; for a much less proportion of such dung, especially if abounding in animal matter, as is less advanced, will serve for the compost, provided...are wanting, by adding the peat piecemeal, that is, Bret mixing it up in the usual proportion of three to one of dung, and then, after a lime, adding an... | |
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