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frost. It can be delivered in my yard for fifty cents a 

 cord, but it would cost those who have to cart it half a mile 

 or more, perhaps seventy-five cents a cord, making a dollar. 

 Dry muck, in the process of mixing and curing during 

 the winter, would be certain to lose neither in weight nor 

 volume. In the spring it is worth two dollars a cord as 

 it lies in the yard. In making compost I calculate to use 

 about three loads of muck to one of stable manure. If I 

 have animals enough to make a hundred cords with 

 nothing but straw, I can make four hundred with muck. 



On the muck that I am able to cure in the fields where 

 I use it, I make a still larger profit, as I save one carting. 

 This I cure with stable manure that I buy from the village, 

 and with fish, dead animals, guano, or with lime and ashes, 

 taking care not to use these latter articles with the animal 

 manures. If any body doubts about my estimate of 

 muck let him come to Hookertown and see my corn bin 

 and porkers, my root cellar and cows, and my hay mows 

 and horse stables. Jake Frink despises a dead horse and 

 invokes crows. I think the carcass worth a &quot; V,&quot; and 

 save it. There is as much difference in folks as in any thing. 

 Yours to command, 



TIMOTHY BUNKEK, ESQ. 



Jloolcertown, Jan. 1UA, 1862. 



NO. 55. TIM BUNKER ON FAMILY HORSES. 



&quot; In faith, she s dead as a herring, sir,&quot; said Patrick, as 

 he came from milking, yesterday. 



&quot;Poor old crature, is she gone indade?&quot; asked Bridget, 

 the maid, as she lifted the corner of her apron, and wiped 

 genuine tears from her eyes. 



