THE FARxMERS' REGISTE^R, 



709 



near her stable. A neighbor, who was assisting, 

 said she must be lunied out ut the bum, or slie 

 would lose her colt. As it vvus cold and siorniy, 

 I would not consent, but to pacily him, |)ut her in 

 a renjole |)drl ol the barn, and mostly out ol sighi 

 ol our operations; and wiien the beel was earned 

 in and the Hoor cleaned up, siie was reiurncd to 

 llie stable, in a lew days, t perceived ihui soine- 

 thing was the mailer wiih iier ; she was dull and 

 sluggish, hair looked bad, and something was 

 evidently llie matter, though I did not suspeci ilie 

 real cause, but laid it lo her lampers and sliedding 

 her teeth, in just fourteen days she miscarrieU. 

 This one case esiablithes nothing, and tliongh 

 every body here is sure ihat the same ertett will 

 follow the same cause, jet no one can give me 

 anoiher instance in their own knowledge, i can 

 easily suppose that beei or any thing else that 

 would Irigluen a mare, might j)roduce this tllect; 

 but this mare was nut IrighteheJ, betrayed no un- 

 easiness, and kept eating the whole time. For 

 old traditions, unsupponed by evidence, I have 

 but hille respect; bui as all true theories are lorm- 

 ed by a collection of liicls, I submit tliis, vvtili ihe 

 hope it may prove in some way uselul. B. 



Kennebec Co,, Me., Dec. 5th, 1841. 



Our correspondent B., in Ins sensible remarks, 

 has said all that seems necessary, unless more 

 facte can be adduced. We never belore heard ol 

 the existence of the opinion he alludes to, and 

 have nothing to say either in its supjiurt or reluta- 

 tion. Can any one give us other lacis ? — Ed, N. 

 E. F. 



COMPARISON OF MANURKS. 



From tlie (Eng.) Gardeners' ChroDicle. 

 Messrs. Buussingault and Payen have lately 

 produced an elaboraie memoir upon the compara- 

 tive value ol different kinds of manure. An ab- 

 stract only of it has as yet reached us, the sub- 

 stance of which is as follows i^^These chemisis 

 regard nitrogen as the element whose presence is 

 of the greatest importance in manure, and every 

 substance capable of furnishing it becomes valua- 

 ble in an agricultural view, provided that sub- 

 stance can extricate azotised products in a soluble 

 or volatilizable state. If, however, the nitrogen is 

 incapable of entering inio putrid fermentation, and 

 of so furnishing ammoniacal sails and other 

 azotised combination, the substance containing it 

 can be of no use for manure ; as is proved by 

 the shale of the coal measures, which contains 

 considerable qunniiiies of niirogen, and yet has 

 absolutely no etic ct as a manure. Hence the 

 value of amanuie is to be determined by the 

 power if possesses of yielding ammonia ; putrid 

 urine, for instance, one of the most energetic of 

 fertilizing principles, yields carbonate of ammonia ; 

 and guano, that rich compound which lor centuries 

 has given fertility to the arid sands of the Peruvian 

 coast, consists almost entirely of salts with an 

 ammoniacal base. The authors do not undervalue 

 the impertance of other substances, such as alkalies 

 or earthy salts ; on the contrary, they admit their 

 presence to be indispensable to the growth of 

 plants ; neverthelpps, it is to ammonia that they 

 assign by far the niosi importance. The follow- 

 ing table gives the result of their inquiry in re- 



epeci 10 a considerable number of substances, and 

 snows how many loads of eucli are lequired in 

 order lo produce the same effect as 100 loads ol' 

 common '4arm yard dung. We have oruiited 

 liom tluse lablLS a lew subelances which, not 

 occurring in this countiy, have no inieicsi lor larm- 

 ers and gurdeneis in CI real Butuin. 



Jj Table of Manures. 



Showing the numbeis of loads required in both the 

 moibt, \ov ordinary) ana dried (_or pie(mred) 

 stales, lo e(|ual lOU loads ol farm yard dung, so 

 far ao the ciuaniity ol niirogen is concerned. 



iVJoisi. Dried. 

 Pea straw - - - - 22 100 



Suinluin siraw - - - - 83 361 

 Vetch straw - - - - 39 174 



Wheal straw - - - - 166 650 

 Do. . - - - . 81 3(57 



Do., lower joints - - - 97 453 

 Do. ujiper joints, with the heads after 



thraslmig - - - - 30 137 

 Bye straw - - - - 235 975 



Do., of 1841 - - - - 95 390 

 Oai straw - - ' - - 142 541 



Bnrlev straw - - - - 173 750 

 Wiieat chatf - - - ' - 47 207 

 Jerusalem artichoke straw - 108 453 



Broom 32 142 



Green beet leaves, (Jams) - 80 43 



Potato leaves - - - - 72 84 

 Carrol leaves - - - - 47 66 

 Heath leaves - - - - 22 102 

 Sea wrack - - - - 46 138 



Do. 42 123 



Do. . - - - - 28 85 



Do. li-esh iiom the sea - . 74 



8 39 



Malt dust 



Buried clover ""o^'^ 



Flax cake 



Bane cake 



Fish cake 



Grease cake 



Beet root pulp " 



Do. - - - 



Potato pulp 



Starch water 



Do. ... 



Starch refuse 



Do. ... 



Dunghill drainings 



Sawdust ofacacia 



Do. ... 



Do. of fir wood 



Do. ... 



Sawdust of oak 



Solid cow dung 



Cow urine 



Mixed cow dung ' - 



Solid horse dung 



Horse urine 



Mixed horse dung 



Do. pig dung 



Do. sheep dung 



Do. goat dung 



Pigeon dung 



Liquid Flemish manure 



Do. ... 



Belloni'a poudrette 



Oyster shells 



Marl - , - 



24 110 



7 32 



8 35 

 74 322 

 11 49 



35 154 

 105 154 



76 100 



571 



645 



111 107 



24 



67 126 



137 513 



173 629 



250 886 



173 629 



74 256 



125 84 



90 51 



97 75 



72 88 



15 15 



54 64 



63 67 



36 65 

 18 49 



4 21 

 210 

 181 



10 44 



125 487 



78 377 



