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stock to spend the greater part of the day in winter in the 

 fields, keep them stalled and littered. Instead of leaving the 

 manure of cattle in the yard exposed to the sun and rain, it 

 should be kept in barn cellars, or in sheds, which can be made 

 of rough boards at a trifling expense. 



Manure which is protected from evaporation, washing, or 

 drying up, is richer and stronger than that which is exposed. 



The advantage of cellars for manure is, that they keep it in 

 its natural condition, unchanged, and therefore secured against 

 waste. The system of feeding in stalls, or, in other words, 

 housing cattle summer and winter, instead of the yard system, 

 is strongly recommended on account of the better quality of 

 manure so produced. The following analysis, made lately at 

 an English agricultural college, shows the difference in stall 

 manure and yard manure, that which was sheltered and that 

 exposed. 



Again we repeat, study to have a large dunghill and a good 



one. 



