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per cent, more than in June, and, experience of pre- 

 vious years has shown, it will be fully ten per cent 

 more in September than it is now. " 



THE INCREASED QUANTITY AND QUALITY or 

 MANURE. 



So much has been already said on the question of 

 manures, that the reader knows what a high value I 

 place upon that produced in the barnyard, and its 

 comparison with the costly and uncertain results ob- 

 tained from commercial fertilizers. 



No farmer needs to be told that, if he has an 

 abundant supply of manure, he can raise large 

 crops. The want of it, more than any one thing 

 connected with farming, makes thousands of farm- 

 ers and their families slaves to unremitting toil, 

 drudging through life, when if one-quarter of the 

 labor that is spent in trying to subsist by cultivat- 

 ing exhausted soils were turned to accumulating a 

 restorative, independence would take the place of 

 dependence, and the farmer enjoy all the comforts 

 implied by well-filled barns and granaries. 



Manure is the very life and soul of husbandry. It 

 is the basis of vegetable production, the substructure 

 on which the farmer can alone hope to build success- 

 fully. The attainment of manure by the soiling 

 system is one of the greatest and most characteristic 

 benefits to be derived from its practice, and the 

 amount which thus naturally accumulates far ex- 

 ceeds all anticipation. All who have had practical 



