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tents of said pen and run off in a barrel. Fill the pens with barnyard, chip 

 manure, tobacco stalks or any rubbish, leave the pens uncovered. Construct 

 by trough, the water from eaves of barn or stables into the pens. Care should 

 be taken not to let too much water go into the pens. Thus you have a com- 

 plete leaching system. When the barrels are filled with lye from the pens 

 it should be poured in stall or stable and sink into the pit with the com- 

 pound. This is the double process of manufacturing the Farmers Com- 

 pound Fertilizer. 



STOCK IN THE STALL IS A GOOD CONDUCTOR OF 



amonia from the air. Established by which the amonia phosphoric acid and 

 Potash from the solid manure, is conducted into the pit under the stall or 

 stables and is there joined by the same ingredients in a safer and more abund- 

 ant form, from the liquid manure deposited by the stock: making a powerful 

 and available plant food in a much more concentrated and availible form than 

 is found in high priced commercial fertilizers. At the end of six months 

 your pits are ready to throw out, the contents of which has by this time be- 

 come out as black as ink and as strong as lye. If you now want to use this 

 through a drill it will be necessary to dry by spreading thinly on barn lot or 

 floor and run through a sieve, or what is better, if you have one, an old fan- 

 ning mill. If you wish to use in the drill on any crop when a drill is not nec- 

 essary the drying sieving may be dispensed with. An ordinary stable, say 

 10x14 feet will furnish 200 bushels of the compound sufficient to fertilize 

 20,000 hills of tobacco or twenty acres of wheat with the highest grade fer- 

 tilizer known to science. The public is warned not to infringe upon my in- 

 vention unless they are authorized by myself or lawful agents, for my rights 

 must be respected. 



Copyright secured. 



I. J. BRITAIN, WINSTON, N. C." 



We have copied this singular circular in full, spelling, punctuation and 

 all, to show with what sort of stuff some men try to fool farmers The bulletin 

 well says that the prominent statement that "stock in the stall is a good con- 

 ductor of amonia from the air" is not true. Neither is the statement that 

 the result of all this waste of time and labor is a powerful and available plant 

 food in a much more concentrated form than is found in high priced fertil- 

 izers, true. Still further from the truth is the statement that the mixture 

 is "the highest grade fertilizer known to science," for it is nothing of the sort. 

 Inquiry of the Librarian of Congress reveals the fact that their indexes do not 



