Engraving depicting the process of collecting manure in a farmyard. Drains would led into the pit from the stable, left, and cowshed, right: straw for mucking out beasts was added through a trap-door at ground level, and the whole was left to rot down before being used to improve soil fertility. Dated 18th century

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