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is ever saved for use, but nearly the whole is allowed 

 to go to waste." 



Now, as it is almost an utter impossibility to save 

 all the liquids, unless we adopt Mechi's costly plan, 

 what an over-whelming argument in favor of green 

 manures. For all the liquid of any value, in grain 

 or in manure, originally came from the green stalk. 



There is a way of saving the urine which should 

 not be over-looked. Erect a temporary fence around 

 a piece of ground which you can till, and keep your 

 animals on it. Let them remain there till the cold 

 weather obliges you to put them in the barn. You 

 can keep the cattle there all the time, if the lot is 

 large enough to require all their manure, during the 

 warm season , or you may let them pasture in the 

 field by day, and feed them at night in the enclosure 

 with green corn, Hungarian grass, clover, rye, 

 cabbage and everything eatable. 



If you will sprinkle over this pen, more or less 

 straw or corn-fodder, it \vill be an advantage. But 

 do not plow it up, till you want to sow or plant some- 

 kind of crop. Better have two or three acres that are 

 very rich, than ten that are very poor. Cows may 

 pasture among rocks and stumps, and on hill-sides, 

 where you never plow, and may return at night / to 

 enrich the pen, and this will pay you well for their 

 night and morning meal. Mechi says : " 1500 sheep 

 folded on an acre of land for 24 hours, (or 100 sheep 

 15 days) would manure that land sufficiently to carry 

 it through a four years' rotation." By this wise 

 arrangement they save all the liquid, as well as the 

 solid residue. This is a matter of vast importance. 



