TALKS ON MANURES. 



By JOSEPH HARRIS, M. S. 



Of Moreton Finn, Rochester, New York. Author of " W<ilks and Talks on the 

 Farm," " Talks on Farm Crops," "Harris on the Pig," etc. 



While we have no lack of treatises npon artificial fertilizers, there id no work 

 in which the main stay of the farm the manure made upon the farm is treated so 

 satisfactorily or thoroughly as in this volume. Starting with the question, 



the author, well-known on both sides of the water by his writings, runs through in 

 sufficient detail every source of manure on the farm, discussing the methods of 

 making rich manure ; the proper keeping and applying it, and especially the 



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and the effects of different artificial fertilizers, as compared with farm-yard 

 manure, upon different crops. In this he makes freo use of the striking series of 

 experiments instituted years*ago, and still continued, by Lawcs and Gilbert, of 

 Rothamsted, England. Tiie 



R.EItlAIiTt^BIL.E TABLES 



in which the results of these experiments are given, are here for the flr*t time 

 made accessible to the American farmer. In fact, there is scarcely any point re- 

 lating to fertilizing the soil, including the suitable manures for special crops, 

 that is not treated, and while the teachings are founded upon the most elaborate 

 scientific researches, they are so far divested of the technical language of science 

 as to commend tnemsclves to farmers as eminently "practical." It is not often 

 that the results of scientific investigations are presented in a manner so thoroughly 

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