Muck and Fresh Stable Manure. Ill 



a grain crop affords inadequate shelter, the materials must 

 often be dry, and decomposition at a stand, so as to afford 

 but little assistance to that crop, this has generally been 

 more or less the case, where I have observed such an 

 application. 



" The stercorary is to the farmer, what his dam is to the 

 miller," and " fermentation" (in the stercorary, I suppose) 

 is as essential to the farmer as to the brewer or distiller." 



The miller wants his dam to produce a power adequate 

 to the effect. The farmer does not want the stercorary 

 for that purpose : for decomposition will take place with- 

 out the aid of quantity. 



The brewer and distiller want a new arrangement of 

 the elementary principles of vegetables : this is the result 

 of a loss of part of the carbon ; and is best effected by 

 promoting the fermentation in a mass. The farmer wants 

 an entire decomposition : his object is to save the carbon. 



ing it to casualties attendant, than to the known and inevitable 

 loss by fermentation in a mass. I believe that the opinions en- 

 tertained by some men, in favour of covered repositories for dung, 

 have resulted from ascribing effects to a wrong cause. They have 

 witnessed the great difference in effect, produced by a few loads, 

 drawn immediately from the stable, and the same kind when rot- 

 ted : they have considered this difference was all produced by the 

 latter having been wet ; but the real cause was the animal produce 

 of the stable promoting a speedy fermentation of materials, not 

 before fermented. When applied to ground laid down with arti- 

 ficial grasses, it is the influence of this speedy return in promot- 

 ing vigorous seedling plants, and the decomposition of their roots, 

 when returned to the plough, that forms the difference in effect 

 between that and dry hay straw. But for the influence of that 

 cause, it would be less valuable, in proportion to the dressings it 

 contained, as that quantity is less valuable by all that it takes to 

 support the life of the beast, and add flesh to his bones. 



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