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farmers. As how such a man feeds his cattle and 

 manufactures manure, must be interesting to many, 

 the following additional extract on that subject is 

 given : 



&quot; A word as to this most important subject. On poor 

 lands good crops are got by the use of much manure. 

 This all know. But do they know as well that all ma 

 nure is not equally good ; that a cord of it that has been 

 leached by drenching rains throughout fall and winter, and 

 that has been shone upon by the sun through a hundred 

 hot days, has lost the greater part of its efficacy ? That 

 the rivulets of brown liquor that run from the b.arn-yard 

 into the public road will make more wheat than the brown- 

 washed straw which remains ? And that, be manure never 

 so well cared for, its value may be increased at will by the 

 food given to the animals that make it ? If they don t, Mr. 

 Johnston does ; and so, instead of freezing his stock until 

 they are almost in articulo mortis, and starving them on 

 dry stocks and refuse hay until the bones well nigh pierce 

 the skin, he has comfortable sheds and deeply-littered yards 

 for his cattle, and feeds them well at regular intervals with 

 sweet hay, oil-cake, bean-meal, and grain. The result 

 but what other could you expect ? is, that in spring they 

 are in store condition ; he loses none, has no disease among 

 them, saves a large quantity of such manure that one cord 

 of it will bring more wheat or corn than four of ordinary 

 dung, and he grows rich. Reader, if you desire to be a 

 good farmer, go and do likewise !&quot; 



