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ing the Ive, the lime is slacked, and put in after the other mate- 

 rials are added. The grate is built eight inches from the ground 

 to let the air under. The heap is commenced with green vege- 

 tables, about eight inches deep. Then put on as much muck, 

 and mix slightly ; wet with lye thoroughly ; lay on again as be- 

 fore, and wet with lye until the heap is built, containing about 

 six cords. After the heap is completed, cover it over with 

 brakes or straw so that the sun and wet will not injure it. In 

 four or six days after the heap becomes heated, take off the 

 covering, and wet again thoroughly, punching holes with a 

 bar. Ercpeat four times, when the desired effect will have been 

 produced. I also have a ditch running to the vat, which takes 

 all rinsings from the barn-yard to the vat." 



Stephen H. Read's Statement. " I enter for premium a 

 quantity of compost, estimated to be not less than six cords? 

 having been prepared since the middle of June last, as follows: 

 About one-half was prepared in my hog yard, twelve by eigh- 

 teen feet, with a plank floor and roof. The manure and bed- 

 ding from the horse stable is thrown into the yard daily, adding 

 swamp muck, loam, weeds from the garden, unleached ashes, 

 swamp grass, &c. The drain that conveys all the slops from 

 the house empties into this yardj by this it is kept sufficiently 

 moist to keep up a proper fermentation; occasionally pitching 

 it over — throwing over the contents of the privy vault. The 

 remainder was prepared under my ox and cow linter, by adding 

 almost daily something such as muck, loam, straw, &c., to keep 

 the strength from escaping, and to take up the urine ; and with 

 such compost prepared in that way, I can add one-half or more 

 to my manure yearly, and I think I can safely say from actual 

 experience, that it is worth as much per cord as the clear ma- 

 nure usually managed by farmers." 



Gathered from Statements, 



Live Stock. 

 Stephen Bray showed a three years old stud colt, weighing 

 nine hundred and fifty pounds. He was sired by Whalebone 



