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Agriculture published the following table, which 

 every farmer should get printed in big type and paste 

 over his mantelpiece : — 



TABLE SHOWING COMPARATIVE VALUES OF FARM- 

 YARD MANURE AND LIQUID MANURE. 



This table shows at a glance what a potent 

 fertiliser liquid manure is. A ton of liquid manure, 

 we may say, is only about 220 gallons, or about b\ 

 paraffin barrels full. Exclusive of labour, a concrete 

 tank to catch the liquid manure would not cost more 

 than the price of 1 cwt. of nitrate of soda for every 

 ton of liquid manure which it would hold. The 

 expenditure of about £2 more would buy a chain 

 pump for pumping the stuff into the liquid manure 

 cart. This latter is a fairly costly item (from £16 to 

 £20), but a couple of old paraffin barrels or a big 

 wine cask, having a spigot and hole at the bottom, 

 and put into an ordinary farm cart, or better still, 

 put on to a hay bogie, are all that is needed. 



It is a pity that when the principle of compulsion 

 was being applied to the management of land, those 

 in authority did not sufficiently recognise the economy 

 which could be effected as regards the saving of 

 liquid manure, and penalise the man who wasted 

 such a valuable manure, 



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