o-A now TO MAKE THE FARM PAY. 



A family of six persons will ordinarily produce per day 

 ubout eighteen pounds of excrement, liquid and solid; or, in one 

 year, six thousand five hundred and seventy pounds, containing 

 twelve pounds of chlorine, fifty pounds of salts, two hundred 

 and twelve pounds of dry, organic matter. In the latter there 

 will be forty-five pounds nitrogen. This is equal to fifty-five 

 pounds of jmre ammonia, or one hundred and forty-two pounds 

 of the carbonate of ammonia of commerce. See, in Chapter III., 

 directions for saving and utilizing this valuable manure. 



The manure of fattening hogs approaches nearly to night soil. 

 Sheep dung comes next in order. Horse manure contains, in 

 one hundred parts, about 



10. carbon, 3.28 carbonate of ammonia, 



1.30 hydrogen, .96 other salts, 



9.50 oxygen, Balance water. 

 .60 nitrogen, 



But horse dung rapidly loses these valuable qualities, unless 

 composted as directed in Chapter III. 



Guano should contain from thirty-four to thirty-eight parts 

 phosphates, thirty-three to thirty-five parts organic matter and 

 salts of ammonia, and sixteen to twenty-four parts water. One 

 hundred pounds cow's urine contains forty pounds of ammonia, 

 and eighty pounds of the most powerful salts ever used by the 

 farmer ; its actual value, therefore, is nearly double that of the 

 dung. One cord of loam saturated with urine, is fully as 

 valuable as a cord of solid dung. See directions. Chapter III., 

 for saving the liquid manure. The urine of the hog is 

 still more valuable, containing one fourth more ammonia, and 

 also phosphates of which the urine of other animals is destitute. 

 We wish we could awaken, in the mind of the farmer, an alarm 

 at the waste of these valuable^ products which is constantly 



