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Soiling. 



LIQUID MANURE. 



There is perhaps no one thing in farm economy 

 in the United States where there is a greater waste 

 than in regard to this- most valuable fertilizer. 



Many farmers have brooks running through their 

 barnyards, or have them situated on side hills, 

 washed by rains and water from the roofs of their 

 barns. 



The following table shows the number of pounds 

 of nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash found in a 

 ton of fresh dung and urine, and their comparative 

 values : 



The analysis from which the above table is com- 

 puted is also from Professor Wolff, to which I have 

 added the value as estimated in the previous tables. 

 The methods used to save liquid manure in this 

 country, although rarely ever practised, are by ab- 

 sorbents behind the stock in stalls, and the housing 

 of manure under some kind of shed or basement. My 

 own plan has been to use land plaster freely in the 

 gutters behind the stock, the manure carted to the 

 fields and spread as fast as made during the winter, 



