60 



foot of sods and turf, and then a light coat of straw 

 or any kind of litter over them. This way is nearly 

 as good, and not so costly, as gutters behind the stalls 

 to carry off the urine. 



When in search of manure, in the village or town 

 near you, the most important question, is not, what 

 kind of animals produce it, but how much, and what 

 kind of feed has been given to them. Joseph Harris 

 says that one bushel of Indian corn will make twenty 

 cents worth of manure. And Lawes considers the 

 residue from one ton of clover hay worth over nine 

 dollars. 



Now when you find a pile under cover, and a 

 reliable man assures you that it was made by feeding 

 200 bushels of corn and ten tons of clover hay, with 

 a moderate amount of straw for bedding, then you 

 may safely offer him $2 per ton for it. 



It will not do to buy every thing that is called 

 manure. Let me give you an example that is worth 

 remembering. 



Col. Waring, of Ogden farm says : " As I drive 

 along the road, I daily meet able-bodied men crawling 

 along beside snail-like ox-teams with loads of stained 

 straw from the private stables in which the summer 

 residents of Newport keep their horses ' up to their 

 knees,' in litter. The cart holds about a cord of" the 

 stuff, (128 cubic feet,) for which $o, or more have 

 been paid in town, and to ^iet which, occupies the 

 best part of a day's labor of man and team." 



You see he will not even call this manure. What 

 a Conrad-like sneer must have curled his proud lip, 

 as he inspected the.se lo.ids of * stuff" us he c; 

 them. 



