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" than to attempt to offer a scientific analysis of its composition. 

 " In planting cabbages, I have taken a handful or two of what 

 " has passed through the closet five times, and, putting it into a 

 " watering-pot, have used it in a liquid form, filling the holes in 

 " which the plants are to be set ; and I have found that if this 

 " liquid manure be made too strong, it burns the root of the plant, 

 *' even as guano would. A new gardener, not believing that there 

 " was much virtue in a heap of earth he found lying in a shed, 

 " thought if there was any thing in it his celery plants should have 

 " enough of it. He threw over them a little more than a hand- 

 '■'■ ful, and this burnt them up. With six pounds weight I planted 

 " in a piece of unmanured ground, forty dozen broccoli and Savoy 

 " plants. No plants could be finer than they were. A cottager 

 " at Bradford Abbas commenced the system in his large cottage 

 " garden, in the spring of 1862. He applied the manure to 

 " patches of mangolds and Swedes ; and the land-steward, who 

 " persuaded him to try it, states that he never saw such fine roots 

 " as were then grown." 



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 " Again, in the spring of 1862, Mr. R. Hayne, of Fordington, 

 " received from me four hundredweight of earth which had 

 '' passed seven times through the closet, and had afterward laid 

 *' for six months in the shed. This he used at the rate of one 

 " hundredweight to an acre, instead of crushed bones, on a 

 " piece of very poor land to be sown to turnips. Both he 

 " and Mr. R. Damen, of Dorchester, a well-known agriculturist, 

 " consider the crop to have been remarkably good, and that 

 *' crushed bones could not have answered better as a manure." 



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" In conclusion, I would remark, that let one-fifth of the pop- 

 " ulation of Great Britain adopt and thoroughly carry out this 

 " system, and one million tons of manure, equal to guano, will 

 " every year be added to our supply of fertilizers." 



The following is from a letter written by Mr. Moule to the 

 London Builder^ of April 4, 1868 : — 



