THE MAKIXd UF FA11M-VARD MANURE. 



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10. Improves the nutritive value of cr 



11. Retains moisture during drought. 

 1 L'. ( lives a deeper soil. 



13. Improve water for health of animals. 



14. Removes certain animal diseases. 



15. Improves the general health of the district. 



dhc 



of Jfarm-jrarb 



and "special 





FARM-YARD manure not only is unrivalled in composition, 

 but its value is enhanced by its action on the soil during 

 its decay. No other manure exerts such a powerful chemi- 

 cal and mechanical effect, and no other can be applied to 

 all sorts of land with such positive certainty of effect. It 

 is also found to be particularly durable in its effects, and 

 these merits are quite sufficient to account for the high 

 estimation in which dung is held by the farmer. 



GENERAL AND SPECIAL MANURES. The terms " general " 

 are applied to manures according to the degree in whirl \ 

 they are capable of thoroughly keeping up the fertility of land. A field 

 from which the constituents of wheat, wool, bone, and milk, are lx 

 perpetually drained, can only be kept up in condition by the return of 



me other form. Any substance which can repair the < i 

 ntitl.-d to be called a general manur--, just as milk, which is well 

 AH to repair all waste, and at the same time supply all tin- n.-ecssary 

 rials for building up the animal hodv. i> spoken of as a "general 



Tin- bee! type of a general manure is rich farmyard duiiLT. Sueh dun- 



tiist, of tin- excrements and urine of animals fed liberally upm 



y,and pn>lal>ly corn ami cake These voiding aiv rich in all tin- 



>f plants as wrll as nitrogen. In additi- 



in abundanc'-, BO that \v--ll mixr.l and made farmyard manure, contains all 



in and straw, and i> thf-ivi-iiv wil calrulated to 

 hack to a ti.-ld what it has lst in the .]-dinar\ OOUTB6 f hu-handiy. 



