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like mixing sand with manure : you don't get any more 

 manure by doing it." 



In my barn-cellar I have a hollow place about in the centre, 

 where the liquid portion of the manure leaches in. I can 

 fill a barrel with that, and put a stick through it, and, al- 

 though that is rather a primitive way of carrying it out, my 

 man and I can carry out in that way four times as much as 

 my horse can draw out in the same time if it is mixed with 

 sand. Sand is about as heavy as any thing you can find : it 

 is a great deal heavier than loam. If I were going to adul- 

 terate my manure with any thing of that kind, I would put 

 in meadow-muck, but not until after that meadow-muck had 

 laid in a pile one year, and been well frozen, and then well 

 dried through one summer ; and then, in the fall after that, 

 I would take that muck, and put it in my barn, and let it 

 absorb the liquid manure, because I think the fertilizing 

 matter in the muck would be sufficient to pay for hauling it 

 into the barn, and hauling it out. But there is very little fer- 

 tilizing matter in sand. I prefer to draw it out in the way I 

 have stated, even though the stuff drips over the tail-board. 

 If I want to compost it, I compost it as I have said, and go 

 over it with a harrow when I get it on the land. 



I have tried carrying out this liquid manure, and distrib- 

 uting it on my own land, and will tell you something about 

 it. I had seen it tried many times in Scotland, on Italian 

 rye-grass and orchard-grass, which grow rapidly, and I deter- 

 mined to try it for myself. I had a piece of ground sown 

 with Italian rye-grass and orchard-grass, for the purpose of 

 experimenting with it. I mowed it for the first time last 

 year. A year ago this spring, I sowed it with barley, which 

 I cut for soiling ; and then I took from that field another 

 crop of grass, which was made into hay ; and I cut some after- 

 wards, which I fed green. This spring I commenced to take 

 out this liquid manure. It was not very far, and I took it 

 with my man, and, for experiment, we just dashed it on; and 

 I cut that grass four times this year. It was, as I have said, 

 orchard-grass and Italian rye-grass. I cut it the first time 

 about the last of May, and I cut it three times afterwards. 

 I would not apply the liquid when the ground is dry. If you 

 put it on then, you will be very likely to lose the effect. 

 Put it on either when it is raining, or immediately after a 



