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made for its receptiotij on the outside of the stable. For, though 

 this excretion operates so mnch to the disadvantage of the health of 

 Horses, when it comes to be mixed with the litter, yet it is of too 

 much value in rural economy, and too precious a material to the 

 practical farmer, not to be husbanded with the most scrupulous care. 

 Though it behoves me, therefore^ as a Veterinarian, to point out the 

 evils which it occasions in stables, yet, I consider it to be scarcely 

 less incumbent upon me, to advert to its prodigious importance as an 

 article of manure. In fact, I consider the urine of the Horse to 

 be of more value as manure, than the dung of the animal. And 

 though this subject has of late excited the attention of chemical 

 Philosophers, still, I suspect, we are, as yet, but in the infancy of 

 rightly appreciating the value of urine, as applicable to the purposes 

 of practical agriculture. It is the very poperty, indeed, of urine 

 which occasions it to be so hurtful to the health of Horses kept in 

 stables, which renders it of such inestimable value as a manure, name- 

 ly, that of being so readily susceptible of the putrefactive fermentation. 

 The Farmer therefore ought, undoubtedly, to preserve it with as 

 much care, as he would the apple of his eye. The contents of the 

 reservoir, should be thrown from time to time, upon such heaps of 

 dead vegetable matter as he wishes to encourage the process of putre- 

 faction in ; and in order to save and accumulate the greatest quantity 

 of urine possible, the pavement of the stalls should be constructed 

 of such materials as admit of very few interstices. For, these 

 interstices occasioning the lodgement of the urine, it will readily give 

 the first impulse to the fermentative process in the litter: especially, 

 when assisted by the heat communicated to it, from the body of the 

 animal, when he lies down. But, though the pavement should be 



