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danger, and a notice that some fertilizing properties ai'C 

 wasting, and I deem immediate attention of so mneli impor- 

 tance that I slionld not neglect it nnless my honsc was on 

 lire or my wile d\ ing. No matter from whence the warn- 

 ing comes, whether slop hole, water closet, pig-[-cii or stable, 

 liasten to the spot with mnck, fresh earth or some other 

 absorbent, and we at once secnre two objects, fertility and 

 health, A few years ago, a man remarked to me : " I sec 

 you have improved your farm, how shall I improve mine?" 

 M}' reply was, " Look under j'our feet." He had lost half 

 his family with putrid disease, from the effect of those poi- 

 sonous exhalations which, if [)roperly husbanded, would- 

 have enriched liis fields instead of destroying his loved ones. 

 I have seen men drawing home commercial fertilizers, while 

 the liquid manure from their yards and stables was running 

 off in the ditch by the roadside, and their slopholes were 

 emitting the most offensive odors. Such cases should 

 remind us of a certain text of Scripture : " But the eyes of 

 a fool are in the ends of the earth." (Prov. xvii : 24.) 



Then let us, like loj'al subjects, stay at home, look under 

 our feet, and increase the dominion of this sovereign crop, 

 until it shall be independent of circumstances and condition 

 of season. 



