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artificial which are now sold; it had only to learn 

 how to make a profitable use of all the riches which 

 were being lost every where on the farm. Within 

 reach of the farmer there were numerous precious 

 substances which they have learned to collect with 

 the greatest care. As soon as there was need lie 

 endeavourd to increase these substances. Cattle had 

 heretofore been only considered from a commercial 

 point of view, they were soon to be considered as a 

 factory for manure and they were increased as much 

 as possible. The old useless and even hurtful fallows, 

 nurseries of seeds of hurtful weeds, were replaced 

 by fine crops of fodder plants which served to feed 

 the cattle and improved in place of deteriorating the 

 land. The amount of fodder to be used was increased : 

 the manure, from the stable-, was placed in watertight 

 ditches or placed in contact with purin. where decom- 

 position set in, and it thus became more suitable to 

 give up in a shorter time its nutritive qualities to 

 the plants. The stale was directed to these manure 

 heaps to increase their value, or collected in separate 

 cisterns to be distributed over th-j natural or arti- 

 ficial grass lands. All the stray and hurtful farm 

 rubbish was gathered together and mixed with 

 lime to form. valuable compost, to be applied, in the 

 fall, upon the fields being prepared for the culture of 

 the beet or in -the spring upon artificial grass lands. 

 Under the influence of these improvements agri- 

 culture soon attracted to itsolf large capital, and 

 when the time came that the land required an 

 increase of manure, which wr>s not just at hand, 



