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VALUATION OF MANURES. £83 



that is the great value of the liquid manure from stock. This, if 

 properly saved and applied, — and it is very easy to save it by 

 means of a barn cellar and pleiity of muck, — will make a valuable 

 compost, and furnish much nitrogen. 



There are certain principles which you may reduce to practice. 

 What we want is for the farmer to double the amount of his 

 manure. We certainly now have more than four times the amouHt 

 of manure on our farm that we had under our former practice. 

 We save all our urine, and add as much muck as we contemplate 

 making solid manure. The muck thus treated is worth as much 

 as solid manure, and the urine is all saved. 



Mr. Thing. I thought, when the lecturer was speaking about 

 shooting growth into plants, that if he could go a little further 

 and shoot his ideas into the minds of the people, he would accom- 

 plish a great work. This discussion, like every other to which I 

 have listened, has more and more impressed me with the great 

 necessity we have for tliis agricultural college which has been es- 

 tablished. Mr. Goodale says that a chemical analysis will inform 

 us just what a certain manure contains ; but it will not tell with 

 certainty what we can get out of that manure, or what results will 

 surely follow its application. Now, if we get this agricultural 

 college established on a firm basis, and in successful operation, we 

 may makfe its influence felt throughout the length and breadth of 

 the State. We hope they may tell us what our difierent soils need ; 

 what manures to apply, so that we may know not only what their 

 market value is, but what their value will be to us. I hope those 

 who are here to-day will remember, when they return to their 

 homes, the necessity there is for encouraging and sustaining this 

 college. 



The Michigan Agricultural, College. 



The President. The chair will state that a gentleman is present 

 from one of the Western States, who is under the necessity of 

 leaving early in the afternoon. It will interest all to hear from him, 

 either upon the question now under discussion, or upon matters in 

 the State in which he lives, I therefore call upon President Abbott, 

 of the Michigan Agricultural College. 



Address of President Abbott. 



Gentlemen of the Board, — I feel very deeply this compliment to 

 the Michigan Agricultural College, for it is certainly paid to the 

 college, and not to me. I came to see the Agricultural College of 



