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other is being emptied. Should the cart be filled 

 before the drivers return, and run over, it runs back 

 into the well. I do not think of any one thing- in 

 farm economy where there is a greater chance for 

 saving than in this one question of liquid manure. 

 I believe it will pay a better return on the invest- 

 ment than any one thing that can be recommended. 



The German proprietor of eight acres, referred to 

 by James Wilson, in "Ten Acres Enough," who 

 transformed the neglected and exhausted soil into a 

 garden of immense productiveness and great profit, 

 started with a capital of $3 and four pigs. The 

 manure of this small number of stock was collected 

 in a buried hogshead, there reduced to liquid man- 

 ure, and applied by means of a wheelbarrow. The 

 results from this small beginning were so remark- 

 able that he soon added more stock, sinking a brick 

 cistern in the barnyard, into which the liquid man- 

 ure from the cow and two horses was conducted, to- 

 gether with the wash from the pig pen and yard. 

 The manure heap, always under cover, was 

 thoroughly saturated by means of a pump in the cis- 

 tern, and by means of a hogshead on wheels the 

 liquid was distributed over the ground. 



The reason why liquid manure cisterns are not 

 common in this country is simply fashion. I believe 

 it is not too much to say that we waste as much 

 every year by not securing the liquid manure as we 

 pay for commercial fertilizers to take its place. 



