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tables, small fruits, furnish stimulus to the rose and other 

 flower borders, and keep the grass-plot green and fresh even 

 in the hottest and driest weather of midsummer. The use 

 of a little plaster (gypsum) occasionally, thrown in and 

 around the tank, would always keep it sweet and clean. By 

 the use and practice of liquid manuring no delay need ever 

 occur in planting-time because of the manure not being on 

 hand, or not being in a sufficiently rotted condition ; but 

 planting could proceed, and the application of manure be 

 made at leisure. Horticulturist. 

 Value of liquid manures. 



The urine voided from a cow during one year contains 

 900 Ibs. solid matter, and compared with Peruvian guano 

 at $50 per ton is worth $20. It will manure 1J- acres of 

 land, and is more valuable than its dung, in the ratio, by 

 bulk, of 7 to 6, and in intrinsic value as 2 to 1. Dana. 



The Urine of the Cow contains of water 92.6 per cent. 



" " Horse " u 94. " 



" " Sheep " " 96. " 



" " Hog " " 92.6 " 



" " Human " " 93.3 " 



The remainder is composed of salts and rich food for vegetables. Sprengel 



Poudrette and Urate. 



Poudrette is the name given to the human excrement 

 after being mixed with charcoal dust or charred peat, to 

 disinfect it of its effluvia, and when dried becomes con- 

 venient for use or transportation. 



Urate is the name given to urine after mixing with it -J 



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