ARTIFICIAL MANURE. 18 L 



found, that at 90 lbs. per bushel, full measure, and 

 103 bushels being allowed to a cord, — each contains 

 and weighs as follows, in pounds; 



Weight. Soluble Insoluble Total Salts of 

 Geine. Geine. Geine. Lime. 



Dung/ 



No. 9 peat of 



table, 

 No. 10, do. do. 



A cord of pond mud, (No. 11,) weighs when dug, 

 6117 lbs. and contains solid matter, 3495 lbs. com- 

 posed of geine, 495 lbs ; of silicates and salts, 3005 

 lbs. The salts of lime in pond mud, are 2 1-2 per ct. 



260. The salts and geine of a cord of peat are 

 equal to the manure of one cow for three months. It 

 is certainly a very curious coincidence of results, that 

 nature herself, should have prepared a substance, 

 whose agricultural value approaches so near cow 

 dung, the type of manures. This subject may have 

 been now sufficiently explained. Departing from 

 cow dung and wandering through all the varieties of 

 animal and vegetable manures, we land in a peat-bog. 

 The substance under our feet is analyzed, and found 

 to be cow dung, without its musky breath of cow 

 odour, or the power of generating ammonia. That 

 process is over — a part of the ammonia remains, still 

 evident to the senses by adding caustic potash. It 

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