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Hindu and other cultivators, and is used by them without 

 the least prejudice as the best manure for cultivating 

 jowari, vegetables, and fruit-trees. 



In the Deccan, nightsoil has long been utilized under 

 the name of sonkhud, ( golden manure.* 



In Barabunki, the public latrine refuse is sold, in a 

 semi-moist state, to cultivators who use it chiefly for their 

 sugarcane and wheat-lands. It is used also by Murans 

 cultivating cabbages and cauliflowers, for which it is 

 regarded as the best of manures. 



The results obtained by the utilization of human 

 fertilizers have been so remarkable, that it is a 

 matter of surprise that the subject has not attracted 

 public attention before. Some experiments made 

 with village sweepings and nightsoil on the black 

 soil of the Deccan, showed the following remark- 

 able results : 



(t The ground had been slightly manured the year 

 previous ; in 1873 the ground was prepared by ploughing 

 several times and laying up in ridges, as is the custom 

 for planting sugarcane in the country ; plots were marked 

 off ten yards wide, and the manures applied to every 

 alternate plot, the alternating plots being left without 

 manure. Artificial manures and guano were applied at 

 the rate of 4 cwts. per acre estimated cost per acre 

 Ks. 28 ; nightsoil, 10 tons per acre estimated cost Rs. 20 ; 

 village sweepings, 20 tons per acre estimated cost Rs. 20. 

 The results are as under : 



Land with no manure yielded per acre 19 tons by 

 weight of sugarcane. 



Land manured with village sweepings, per acre 41 tons 

 5 cwts. by weight of sugarcane. 



