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of peat or muck, makes twenty cords of manure worth from 

 five to eight dollars a cord. This mixing can be done just as 

 well in the yard, as to shovel the dirt in and out of the 

 stables. All stables should have tight floors, and be so laid 

 that the liquid will all run to one point, where there should 

 be a manure well, which can be made by sinking a hogs- 

 head, Tlie liquid is made more valuable by being diluted 

 with water, and the stable-floors should be washed down 

 occasionally with a few pailfuls of water. The barnyard 

 should also be graded to one corner or to the centre, and 

 another manure well sunk at the lowest point. Every barn- 

 yard should be surrounded on three sides by sheds with eave- 

 troughs to carrj'- off all the rain water, which would otherwise 

 wash away the wealth of the yard. 



Under these sheds, the solid manure of all the animals, to- 

 gether with the litter from the stables, with double its bulk of 

 peat or muck, should be evenly spread every week, and the 

 liquid manure from the wells dipped or pumped over it. 

 Light troughs may be made to carry it from the pumps to any 

 part of the yard. 



The liquid manure is thus not only saved, but helps in the 

 decomposition of the solid and prevents it from becoming 

 heated or fire fanged. Manure thus treated will be doubled in 

 quantity and doubled in quality. The yard should be kept 

 well supplied with peat or muck. We repeat that no farmer 

 can justify his purchase of fertilizers until he has used these 

 simple and comparatively inexpensive means of increasing his 

 home manufacture. 



The Horse stable is especially apt to be the scene of this 

 waste. The manure of the horse contains a large amount of 

 ammonia, (which is the best of all fertilizers,) and less mois 

 ture than other manures, and is therefore much more likely to 



