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下の牛舎から上にいくまでの 道に落ちた堆肥をホウキなどで道の端にはくのではなくこれからは一輪車で集めて捨てるようにしてください

is the naku a form of nai, and does it mean the compost won't peel off the
road? But from the rest of the sentence I get the feeling its different.
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purpose of なく in this sentence
The part of interest here is ではなく which is the continuative form of ではない. I
find that AではなくB often translates reasonably as "B rather than A". So in this
case

> Rather than sweeping the crap ... make sure you ...
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Yes, it's the く form of ない. The pattern [Verb] のではなく means "It is not that
[the subject] does [whatever the verb is], but . . .". More idiomatically
"instead of doing [such-and such]", "rather than doing [so-and-so]".

So this means "Instead of sweeping any manure that falls onto the path up from
the lower cowshed to the side of the path with a broom, in future please be
sure to (ようにする - "make a point of") collect it up with a wheelbarrow and
dispose of it [properly]"

The fact that the path is coming up from the lower cowshed suggests that the
stuff being dropped is animal manure rather that compost.

I have a question: What is the まで doing?
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