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spread, in a liquid form, all the manure he makes. 

 Hence his profit as a farmer, on all his great invest- 

 ments, is 15 to 18 per cent. He very truly says : 

 " It is the filling, carting, turning over, refilling, 

 carting and spreading, and wasting, that run away 

 with the farmer's profit." 



He has abandoned green manuring, which he once 

 followed extensively. In fact, his great outlay, will 

 not justify it now, even if he wished to do it. 



Notwithstanding all this, he says: * If stock is too 

 dear, or you are short of capital, plow in green and 

 root crops, particularly on heavy land." 



So much for England's model farmer. Now for 

 the greatest light in our own country. 



John Johnston says : " I have suffered an immense 

 loss from the liquid^ running from my barnyards, 

 but I never could contrive a plan to prevent it." 

 .(Cultivator, J86L") 



Probably no man ever estimated manure nearer its 

 true value, or ever had a more striking experience of 

 its power, than John Johnston ; and how passing 

 strange it is, that even he, with all his wisdom and 

 ability, could not save the whole of it ! 



It is an established fact, that the liquid is the most 

 valuable portion of the manure. 



Joseph Harris, in alluding to its great waste, say 

 in Walks and Talks, No. 49 : "As ordinarily managed, 

 however, the liquid either runs away or soaks through 

 the crevices of the planks into the ground and is lost." 



The American Agriculturist, 1872, says : " The 

 value of liquid manures is not sufficiently realized. 

 It is safe to say that not one thousandth part of this 



