194 ARTIFICIAL MANURE. 



years, ending October, 1838, a bushel of clear cow 

 dung, costs 21 1-3 cents. During the same time dung 

 of inferior quality was delivered at the Print-works, 

 by the neighboring farmers, at 20 cents per bushel. 

 Clear dung, is delivered at the Print-works in Dover 

 at 12 1-2 cents per bushel, and at several of the 

 Print-works in Rhode Island, at 16 cents per bushel, 

 giving an average of 17*45 cts. per bushel, and as a 

 cord contains, in round numbers, 100 bushels, its 

 price is $17,45 



Deduct from this the price of an arti- 

 ficial cord, 5,15 



$12,30 



Tt is hence evident that an artificial cord is only 

 about one-third of the price of a natural cord, and 

 if the last may be mixed with two parts of loam or 

 swamp muck, so may the first, which will reduce the 

 price of a cord of artificial manure, to $2,71. 

 Now this is equal, according to all experience, cord 

 for cord, to stable manure ; the value of that may be 

 estimated at $5, so that an artificial cord costs only 

 about one-half. The best plan for preparing the 

 artificial manure, would be to dig the peat or swamp 

 muck in the fall ; in the spring of the year let this 

 be mixed in the proportion of 30 lbs. of potash, 20 



