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time,. each forking over producing new fermentation, thereby 

 adding in vahie to the quality. The importance of frequent 

 forking over a compost heap is often overlooked. It is believed 

 that no labor performed on a farm pays better than this, and 

 none oftener neglected. 



The henery, privy and sinkspout should all be abundantly 

 supplied with dry earth, or meadow muck, each having proved 

 to be perfect deodorizers, and much valuable manure may thus 

 be obtained. 



Those farmers who are located on the borders of the ocean 

 may derive great benefit from its resources. Kelp, rockweed, 

 the various mosses growing in the ocean, are all powerful fer- 

 tilizers, whose value may be doubled by composting as described 

 above. 



Night-soil from our larger towns and cities, that arc so 

 abundantly supplied with running water, is generally so diluted 

 that the teaming of it is now of doubtful expediency. However 

 much the sanitary condition of a city and its luxury may be 

 increased by the introduction of water and its consequent 

 sewerage, an immense waste of fertilizing material is caused, 

 which must eventually lessen the products of the country to an 

 amount incalculable. 



After the farmer has carefully husbanded his resources for 

 manure and would still add to his stock of fertilizers, the 

 refuse of glue factories, morocco dressing establisliments and 

 lead factories may be bought at prices that can be afforded, 

 besides stable and hog 'manure, when competition does not run 

 too high. Wet or damaged salt, as a special manure for certain 

 crops, will sometimes double the product at very small cost. 

 Peruvian guano, at its present price, may probably be used at 

 greater profit than any other of the commercial fertilizers. 



Bonos, when reduced by the farmer himself, are valuable and 

 may doubtless be used with profit, but no farmer can afford to 

 pay thirty or forty dollars per ton above the cost of the bones, 

 for grinding or reducing tlieni to phosphate of lime, and run the 

 risk of adulteration. Your CoDirjiittee would especially caution 

 their brother farmers against the purchase of the numberless so 



