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Night-soil from oiir larger towns and cities, that are so 

 abundantly supplied with running water, is generally so 

 diluted that the teaming of it is now of doubtful expediency. 

 However much the sanitary condition of a city and its luxury 

 may be increased by the introduction of water and its conse- 

 quent sewerage, an immense waste of fertilizing material is 

 caused, which must eventually lessen the products of the 

 country to an amount incalculable. 



After the farmer has carefully husbanded his resources for 

 manure and would still add to his stock of fertilizers, the 

 refuse of glue factories, morocco-dressing establishments and 

 lead factories may be bought at prices that can be afforded, 

 besides stable and hog manure, when competition does not 

 run too high. Wet or damaged salt, as a special manure 

 for certain crops, will sometimes double the product at very 

 small cost. Peruvian guano, at its present price, may proba- 

 bly be used at greater profit than any other of the commercial 

 fertilizers. 



Bones, when reduced by the farmer himself, are valuable 

 and may doubtless be used with profit, but no farmer can 

 afford to pay thirty or forty dollars per ton above the cost of 

 the bones, for grinding or reducing them to phosphate of lime 

 and run the risk of adulteration. Your committee would 

 especially caution their brother farmers against the purchase 

 of the numberless so-called phosphates, that are thrown upon 

 the market, or of guanos, whose only real recommendation 

 is that they contain some Peruvian guano, or of the special 

 fertilizers so persistently urged upon the ftirmer, except by 

 using the greatest care to guard against deception. 



Benjamest p. Ware, /or the Committee. 



