Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.31
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.31
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c20.31
In every part however that I have visited the application of manure for recruiting and restoring land is well understood. The people seem to have all the resources that we have in this respect. By littering their cattle with straw, they increase the quantity of manure. They collect leaves, and putrescent substances. When they have no means of rotting the straw, they mix it with dry dung, old grass and even branches of trees, which they place in a heap and set fire to it. The ashes are then spread on the ground. The slime and bottoms of tanks are dug up, and considered to be a valuable manure.