Organic Manures 



Pigeon and Poultry Dung. 



This manure is not generally plentiful. There 

 are only a few poultry keepers and pigeon fanciers 

 who could supply it, and that produced on the farm 

 is very often neglected. It is a strong manure, which 

 ought to be collected carefully and can be applied 

 with great advantage to the garden. Properly 

 diluted it makes a liquid manure which gives excellent 

 results both with vegetables and flowers. 



Pigeon dung is richer in nitrogen than poultry 

 (with which are naturally included turkeys, geese, 

 etc.), and contains from i to 3 per cent, nitrogen 

 and from 2 to 3*25 per cent, phosphoric acid as 

 tricalcic. Where it can be obtained in any quantity, 

 it should be given in preference to beetroot and 

 drumhead cabbage, but not to leguminosae. 



Town Refuse. 



This is collected by the scavengers, and comprises 

 the sweepings of roads and market places, and the 

 contents of dustbins. 



In it are found the droppings of horses, straw, 

 leavings from meals, vegetable refuse, fish unfit for 

 food, cinders, house sweepings, paper, bricks, old 

 mortar, broken glass, bottles, tins, sand, etc. 



The value of town refuse varies considerably 

 according to what it contains, according to the 

 quarter from which it comes (the rich quarters 

 giving the best results), and also according to 

 the season, winter producing chiefly cinders, and 

 summer vegetable waste. In a green state it con- 

 stitutes a slow manure not to be greatly recom- 

 mended, imless its price is low. But when it has 



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