VI CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 



EiCEETED Matters. — {Nitrogenous Manures;) Horse 

 Dung, Cattle Dung, Hog Dung, Sheep Dung, Bat Dung, 

 Colombine, Chicken Dung ; — Their Composition and Appli- 

 cability to Soils; — Guano,— Its Analysis, — Proportion per 

 Acre; — Excrements of Fish; — Human Excrements; — Pou- 

 drette; — Their Composition, Preparation, and Modes of Ap- 

 plication: — Faecal Matters, — Disinfection of: — ^'Animalized 

 Black;" — Preparation of: — Flemish Manure, or Gadoue, — 

 Preparation of: — Deodorization of, — Modes of Increasing their 

 Fertilizing Power. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Animal DE^nxs.—(Mtrogenous Manures,-) Flesh, — Blood, 

 — Bones, — Horn Shavings and Chippings, — Fish Ofial, — 

 Glue Maker's Residue, — Cracklings — Woolen Rags, — Sugar 

 Refinery Refuse ; — Their Modes of Treatment, and Applica- 

 tion to the Soil. 



CHAPTER VII. 

 JNiTROGENODS MiNERAL SuBSTANCEs — Marl, — Trez or 

 Tangue, — Soot, — Picardy Ashes ; — Vitriolic Ashes, — Their 

 Composition and Behaviour as Manures. 



CHAPTER VHI. 



EcoBUAGE.— Definition of, and how practised,— Its Object and 

 Effects. 



CHAPTER IX. 



Vegetable Substances. — Green Manures,— How Applied, 

 and Mode of Action: — Sea Weeds, — Reeds, — Ferns, — Heath 

 Box, — Meadow Grass, — Lupine, — Beans, — Vetch, — Rye, 

 —Spurrey,— Buckwheat, — Madia,— Rapeseed. 



