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I do not claim as an original discovery the means 

 of pr'es;ervinsf apples.. Packinii^ them in aand if! 

 common in ihis part of the couiilry. The drying 

 them I took from the New York CuJtivator. I 

 am satisfied that the combination is preferable to 

 either of the means separately used. This is a 

 small matter, but beinij within the scope of agri- 

 cultural economy, I have supposed you wtould give 

 it a place in the Register. , 



Wai. Carmichael. 



[No. 3 



From tlie (Loiulon) Faniiei's' Masazine for May, 1S37. 



SHORT NOTICE OF A KEW MANURE [mADE 

 OF HTIMAN EXCUESIENt] MUCH USED TX 

 FRANCE, AND A PROPOSAL FOR ITS, INTRO- 

 DUCTION INTO ENGLAND. 



[The following article was found in our latest re- 

 ceived. British periodical, after the last of the forego- 

 ing numbers on "The Police of Health" was in type. 

 This furnishes both newer and more particular evi- 

 dence of the value of the kind of town manure under 

 consideration. — Ed. Far. Reg.] 



Messrs. Payen and Buran, of Paris, having dis- 

 covered a composition which disinfects human ex- 

 crement, and all animal substances, and renders 

 ihem the most fertifizing manure, perfectly fi-ee 

 from any obnoxious odor, and in a pulverized 

 state, now manufacture it on a large scale in 

 France, where it is generally used. Some indi- 

 viduals, who have purchased the right and taken 

 out a patent for the invention in the British Em- 

 pire, purpose manufacturing it in this country; to 

 effect which object they are desirous that a few 

 capitalists, more particularly those who are inier- 

 ested in agriculture, should join them in raising 

 the small sum which will be required for that pur- 

 pose. 



Allowing amply for all contingences, it is esti- 

 mated by competent persons that £6,000 will be 

 reijuired tor establishing a manufactory fijr the 

 above manure; £4,000 of which has been already 

 subscribed, and on which it can be shewn, by a 

 moderate calculation, that fifty per cent, annual 

 pBofit can safely be anticipated. 



The ibilowing tables show the comparative ex- 

 pense and advantages of the old and new systems 

 of manure, as tried upon two separate arpents (1 

 acre 2 roods 30 6-13ths perches); of the same soil 

 in the neighborhood of Paris, by an experienced 

 pracTical agriculturist, one being manured accord- 

 ing to the usual custom of the country, and the 

 other with the improved manure. 



2nd year, five sellers oats 21 bush. 



1-8 pk. at 18/: (14s 3 3-7d 90f. 3 11 51 



3rd year, green crops 90/. 3 115*- 



320/. 12 13 lUf 



NEW SYSTEM. 



Expense. of3lanure. 



1st year, eight hectolitres (15 cwt. 



2qrs.l6lb. at 5/ (3s 11^ 3-1) 

 2nd year, do. 

 3rd do., no manure 



Produce of Crops, 



1st vear, seven setiers ot corn (30 



, bush.) at 20/ (15s lOhl) 



2nd year, seven setiers (30 bush.) 



of do. 

 3rd vear, five setiers (21 bush. 1-8 



pk.) of oats at 15/ (14s 3 3-7d) 



8.0/ 3 3 6 



370/ 14 13 ' 



OLD SYSTE3I. 



Expense of Manure. 



1st year, twenty cart loads stable 



dung, at 6/-S. (4.s 9d l-7d) a load. 



which lasts for three years. 



2nd year - - ■ 



3rd year - . . . 



£ s. d. 

 120/. 4 15 22 

 0/ ' 

 0/000 



120/ 4 15 2-; 



Produce of Crops. 



1st year seven sellers (30 bush.) of 

 corn, at 20/ (15s 10 1-2(0 



140/ 5 11 1^ 



From which it appears that with a reduced ex- 

 penditure of 40/rs. (£1 lis. 9d.) an increase of 50 

 /rs.{£l 19s. 8c?.) in the value of tlie crop was ob- 

 tained, thereby giving a gross total advantage in 

 three years of 90/rs. (£3 lis. 5 l-7d) in the new 

 system over the old system, or at the rate of 30 

 francs (per French arpent,,) or 2Ss. per English 

 acre per annum. 



We are also informed by the same individual, 

 that the new manure possesses tlie following de- 

 sirable qualiiies, viz^ the decided improvement of 

 the land, economy in the conveyance, cleanliness 

 in the crops, freedom from weeds, the production of 

 a stronger ear of corn, and, lastly, that long-sought 

 for desideratum by the farmer, the destruction of 

 th& fly. ( 



Extracts from reports of the different learned 

 societies and the public journals in France, which 

 have expressed the highest opinion of this suc- 

 cessful discovery, for u-hich the inventor received 

 from the Academy of Sciences in France on the 

 8th September, 1834, a prize of 8,000 trancs : — 

 Agricultural Society of the Seine and L'Oise. 

 Extracts from remarks on difi'erent sorts of ma- 

 nure by M. de Cauville. This society has voted 

 the insertion of this paper amongst its memoirs, 

 with the hope by this means of inducing agricul- 

 turalists to repeat the experiments of Mr. JDecau- 

 ville. 



"Amongst manures there are several new ones; 

 but many farmers, not knowing their value, hesi- 

 tate to use them, and thus deprive themselves of 

 valuable, resources. Having this year tried some 

 experiments upon several of them,. I have now 

 the honor to communicate to 3'ou the result. 



"In a piece of clayey and chalky ground of the 

 extent of thirteen French acres (nearly eleven 

 Encrlish) which did not possess much fertilit}', I 

 had some barley sown after two ploughiiiffs, and, 

 at the same time, I spread the following manures. 

 On the first part the blood manure made by Mr. 

 Derosne; on the second, the animalized "black 

 (made by INIessrs. Payen and Buran;) on the 

 third, the disinlected soil [human excrements] of 



