278 THE COMPAEATIVE VALUE OF UKDIXAEY MA^UKE, 



stuffs experimented upon quite paid the cost price, which in 

 every case was somewhat higher than tlie vahie of the meat 

 produced. When Lawes' scale of manurial values is added the 

 results are different, each of the articles, with the single excep- 

 tion of oats, produced a value of manure and meat together con- 

 siderably over the usual cost price. Linseed cake would leave a 

 profit of from £2 to £3 per ton ; decorticated cotton cake, a 

 profit of about £5 per ton ; on oats there would be a loss, as the 

 price is seldom so low as 17s. per qr.. which seems about their 

 value for feeding cattle ; maize would leave a profit when the 

 price is under £7 per ton. Upon younger animals the pecuniary 

 results w^ould have been more favourable ; while upon the older 

 animals they would have been worse. The experiment shows 

 that 4 lbs. of linseed cake, or 5 lbs. of decorticated cotton cake 

 or maize, are about equal to 100 Ibf^. of swedes ; and that, if we 

 compute the manurial value by Lawes' scale, linseed cake and 

 decorticated cotton cake are of much better value as cattle food 

 than either oats or maize. 



THE COMPAEATIVE VALUE OF MANURE MADE WITH AND 



WITHOUT COVER. 



By John Aixslie, Jim., Hillend, Loanhead. 

 [Prem i u m — Fifteen Sovereign s. ] 



Peobably few occupations are so subject to the disappointments 

 and failures that are common to all human employments as that 

 of the agriculturist, and this results not only from the vicissi- 

 tudes of the seasons as from the want of sufficient and necessary 

 practical information and management. 



I believe, however, that there are other causes in existence 

 that in no unimportant way help to produce the too frequent 

 grand total " Failure," and one of these causes I hold to be the 

 ■'' waste " of the farm. 



" Wilful w^aste makes woeful want " ; " Waste not, want not," 

 are well known proverbs ; but are they not too frequently 

 ignored in the management of the farm ? Amongst the wastes 

 of the farm let us place, first, as most important, the manage- 

 ment of the farmyard manure. The value of liquid manure 

 cannot be overrated. I believe that the late Mr. Michi had for 

 many years made a most valuable fertiliser for his farm, with 

 bones reduced in his liquid manure tank. At various times he 

 had pointed out the profits resulting from covering manure, 

 instead of allowing it to get soaked by the rains or dried by the 



