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that carbonic acid had evidently been formed and 

 dissolved by the water. 



Manures from animal substances, in general, re- 

 quire no chemical preparation to fit them for the soil. 

 The great object of the farmer is to blend them with 

 earthy constituents in a proper state of division, and 

 to prevent their too rapid decomposition. 



The entire parts of the muscles of land animals 

 are not commonly used as manure, though there are 

 many cases in which such an application might be 

 easily made. Horses, dogs, sheep, deer, and other quad- 

 rupeds that have died accidentally, or of disease, after 

 their skins are separated, are often suffered to remain 

 exposed to the air, or immersed in water till they are 

 destroyed by birds or beasts of prey, or entirely de- 

 composed ; and in this case most of their organized 

 matter is lost for the land in which they lie, and a 

 considerable portion of it employed in giving off nox- 

 ious gasses to the atmosphere. 



By covering dead animals with five or six times 

 their bulk of soil, mixed with one part of lime, and 

 suffering them to remain for a few months ; their de- 

 composition would impregnate the soil with soluble 

 matters, so as to render it an excellent manure ; and 

 by mixing a little fresh quicklime with it at the time of 

 its removal, the disagreeable effluvia would be in a 

 great measure destryed ; and it might be applied in 

 the same way as any other manure to crops. 



Fish forms a powerful manure in whatever state 

 it is applied ; but it cannot be ploughed in too fresh, 

 though the quantity should be limited. Mr. Young 



