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else great care in its collection and preservation. It 

 has the same constituents as cow manure, but in a 

 more concentrated form, and with a much larger 

 proportion of phosphate of lime. It acts in a similar 

 manner in the soil. 



The "urine" of the horse is a still more powerful 

 fertilizer, and is generally neglected by farmers. It 

 would pay to make plank floors, so as to collect the 

 urine, but they are injurious to the animals. The 

 most common and practical method adopted by 

 farmers is, to litter their stalls with leaves, saw -dust, 

 mold or swamp -muck. These substances absorb the 

 urine and retain its ammonia or nitrogen. Horse 

 dung heats very quickly, and should therefore be 

 piled in such a manner as to receive at any time a 

 layer of woods-earth or mold and plaster. The 

 plaster not only '-fixes " the ammonia in the manure, 

 but eats up the straw, leaves, and rough litter. A 

 sprinkling of plaster to every layer of manure of a 

 foot's thickness is sufficient. 



Hog-pen manure is even more valuable than that 

 of the horse, on account of the large amount of 

 ammonia-producing materials in it, and should be 

 preserved with the greatest care. Sheep droppings, 

 On account of the trouble of saving the manure, are 

 very little attended to by farmers. Where a farmer 

 has forty or fifty head of sheep, he can very cheaply 

 fertilize poor spots on his farm by penning and 

 feeding his sheep upon them during the night, for a 

 week or two at a time. In a very short time the 

 spots will become permanently improved. 



POUDRETTE AND URATE. 



Poudrette is the name given to the human 



