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prepared by filling a pail half full of manure, adding 

 boiling water, and dipping off the liquid when the 

 sediment is settled. 



After a heavy rain there will often be a pool in some 

 corner of the barn-yard where sufficient liquid manure 

 may be dipped up to fill a barrel or hogshead. Where 

 the barn-yard is paved with cobble-stones as all barn- 

 yards should be, for health and cleanliness a catch- 

 basin may be easily arranged which the natural slope 

 of the land will fill when it rains. This will more than 

 pay for the trifling outlay for its construction, as it 

 need only be a depression in the soil, covered with 

 cement. Even stiff clay will answer. It is surprising 

 how carelessly farmers let such valuable property go 

 to waste while they buy load after load of manure at 

 the stables in town and haul it long distances. The 

 yield of the strawberrry- and asparagus-beds alone 

 would be sufficiently increased to pay for such a catch- 

 basin many times over. 



Soapsuds furnish another excellent fertiliser, and 

 every drop of water from the wash-room, bed- room 

 and kitchen should be saved and applied around the 

 roots of plants especially Roses, Dahlias, and vines, 

 which never seem to get enough of either moisture or 

 nourishment. Slop-water should not be put on the 

 foliage of plants, as it leaves a scum that is difficult 

 to get rid of. 



A very good substitute for commercial bone-meal 

 xiiay be manufactured at home by saving all tne Done* 



