

MUCK MANUAL 



FOB 



FARMERS: 



A TREATISE ON THE PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF SOILS; 



THE CHEMISTRY OF MANURES; INCLUDING ALSO THE SUBJECTS 



OF COMPOSTS, ARTIFICIAL MANURES AND IRRIGATION. 



BY SAMUEL L. DANA. 



"It is usual to help the ground with muck, and likewise to recomfort with rauck, 

 put to the roots ; but to water it with muck-water, which is like to be more forci- 

 ble, is not practiced."— Bacow. 



FOURTH EDITION, 

 With a new Chapter on Bones and Saperphoaphates. 



NEW YORK: 

 C. M. SAXTON & COMPANY 



AGRICULTURAL BOOK PUBLISHERS 



1856. 



