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Some plan for saving' and applying manure, adapted to Email 

 farms with limited means, without rebuilding a great deal, would 

 be very useful to some of us in this region. I have noticed in some 

 of our papers a plan for catching It in tubs or troughs, placed un- 

 der the stables ; but how to preserve and apply, rather troubles us. 

 If you could furnish the requisite information, it would be thank- 

 fully received. J. B.— Virgil. 



The following extract from a communication in the 

 Journal of the Royal Agricultural Societt/, may perhaps 

 answer the inquiries of our correspondent: 



" Knowing something of the value of urine, and the pro- 

 fit to be derived from it, I am tlie more anxious to induce 

 others to trj it, and will therefore take this opportunity of 

 saying something about the mode I have adojjted to collect 

 it, and the expense of the tanks to retain it, which may be 

 U'^eful to those who have not yet set about so important an 

 operation in agricultural pursuits. 



•' My land is clay, 250 feet deep ; in this soil only have I 

 had experience, so for this only do I prescribe. Having 

 well considered where the liquid is to be used, as well as 

 where it is to be made, and resolved upon the most con- 

 venient situation. I have a hole dug full seven feet in diam- 

 eter and twelve feet deep, tlie bottom being shaped like a 

 basin, and well rammed, with a little water, into a good 

 puddle. The construction of the tank Is commenced by 

 the bricklayer forming a circle with bricks (four inch work") 

 round an opening of hve feet, leaving a space behind the 

 brick work to be filled and rammed well in with clay-pud- 

 dle by the laborers as the building is worked up, no mor- 

 tar being used with the bricks, or anything else till the 

 dome is to be formed ; mortar or cement is then required, 

 the roof is then arched in, a man-hole left in the center of 

 each tank, and covered with a three-inch yellow deal cover 

 (two-inch oak would be better.) One of these tanks, con- 

 taining 1000 gallons, costs £2 17s. 6d. [about $14] in the 

 following items, calculating to farmers who have the 

 horses and carts in possession : 



£ s. d. 

 Two farm laborers, each M day.. 2 "1 Occupied in digging the 

 Two laboring lads, each 1 day... 3 01 hole,cartingaw.ayclay. 



One man 1 day 2 Of preparing puddle, and 



Two others, 1 day.. 6 oj ramming. 



One bricklayer, 1 day 4 6 



One ditto laborer, 1 day 2 6 



Three hor.ses and carls drawing 



away M mile, for want of nearer 



shoot, )2 day 4 6 



8 feet of 3-ioch deal for cover, at 



5>jd. per foot -.0 3 8 



Labor and nails 10 



Lime and sand for man-hole 2 6 



900 place bricks - 1 7 



£2 17 6 



Several of these tanks should be made adjoining each 

 other ; they then form a most excellent filter to keep back 

 any hay or straw that would prevent the egress of the li- 

 quid fiom the water-cart, receiving it into the first from 

 the stables, and pumping it out from any other one of 

 them. It must be observed, also, the tanks being formed, 

 the drainage into them is the nextfeature to be considered. 

 I have adopted a mode economical and eflFectual, by lay- 

 iii" down in the pavement what is called at the iron works 

 an angle-iron gutter of very small size, and covering the 

 surface of it with a flat iron bar. just to lay within the 

 surface of the gutter, wherein all t!ie urine is received and 

 conveyed away immediately, and all the straw, dung, and 

 dirt is kept out. Tliis is highly advantageous, as the urine 

 is conveyed away immediately, witliuut escape of ammo- 

 nia, and the little gutter may be uncovered as often as you 

 please, and swept out with a broom. There is no under- 

 drain to get stopped ; all can he seen and kept in order by 

 a commonly useful person, without the aitl of what is 

 c lUed a tradesman. I should like to see three of these 

 little gutters dowti a stall, whereby all the urine would be 

 c:iu,i;ht ; three gallons per day from each moderately-sized 

 h<irse. more from cart-horses that drink freely, cnnsidera- 

 blv more from cows, and a much larger quantity from pigs 

 than is usually calculated. If all the water is caught from 



farm-horses, cows, pigs, farm-servants, and household-se 

 vants, the tanks weuld be filled very quickly ; and whei 

 ever the tank containing 1000 gallons of urine is filled th 

 second time and properly applied to Italian rye-grass, tl 

 result will show it is not too high an estimate to calculai 

 the tanks and drains paid for. The first application wi 

 convince the grower of ten acres of this grass, that h 

 present stock is insuflicient to eat il. He must add to i 

 and thereby increase the quantity of urine considerabl 

 and so go on to keep a much larger farming stock alti 

 gether. The often-asked question, • How shall I obtai 

 urine enough ?' will cease to be asked, and the amount • 

 solid foeces so much increased as to obviate the necessii 

 for a constant outlay of capital to procure it." 



I "WOOLn like to be informed through the columns of your jou 

 nal, the causes and the cure of the disease in cattle called hollo; 

 horn, or wolf in the tail. Eleazer Lewis, Ir.—Ncui Market. 



The remarks of Dr. Dado in a recent meeting of th 

 Massachusetts Legislative Agricultural Meeting, will t 

 found of interest in reference to the query of our corei 

 pondent : 



"Dr. Dado, of Boston, said veterinary science had bee 

 too long neglected in this country. There were many wh 

 pretended to )jrescribe for diseases of animals withoi 

 knowing anything about them, and would commence son; 

 funny operations. 



" They would examine the horns and would sometimi 

 bore into them, and perhaps let out a little pus, if the 

 found the horn cold. 



"He considered, however, that heat or cold on the surfat 

 were only syiiqitoms. If the surface was hot, the circuli 

 tion was active ; if cold the reverse was true. 



" There was a communication from the horn to tY 

 nares, or nostril, and any pus in the horn would of coun« 

 run down through the nostril, instead of upwards into tbi 

 horns ! 



" Sometimes this might become tenacious, so as to stc 

 the passage. Then it was requisite to steam the nostril t 

 make it run down. By penetrating the living nienibran 

 or by admitting the atmospheric air by boring, inflammi 

 tion was apt to ensue. 



" He maintained there was no such disease as ' horn ail 

 Has examined animals said to die of horn ail. Has fouc 

 a softening of the brain. And this arises often from a- 

 improper condition of the stomach. Many diseases of th 

 brain originate in the stomach. 



" There is a perfect channel to the tip of every lion 

 There are longitudinal divisions of the horn, and if in b( 

 ring, the gimlet hits one of the partitions, it seems to t 

 solid. If it chances to go between two of these partitioi 

 it would appear to be hollow. 



" The cold horn is really only a circumstance indicativ 

 of the state of circulation in the .system." 



I WAS much interested in your article in the February numbe 

 ou bones and their uses', and in your quotation from Prof. NORTCI 

 it is stilted that fifty pounds sulphuric acid would cost $1.60. Mi 

 Nesbitt, in his lectures in England, quotes it at £1 per tou, whic! 

 is about the same. But our druggists here say that they neve 

 heard of any such price, and their commercial circulais quote it ai 

 ten cent-s per pound by the quantity in New York. Now, if 301 

 will show where the discrepancy lies, you will oblige one substri 

 ber, and perhaps more. X. 



Ordinary sulphuric acid, under the title of oil of vitriol 

 our correspondent will see quoted in any of the New yorl> 

 papers which give full reports of th market, at fromthret 

 to three and a half cents per pound by the carboy. It ii 

 somewhat higher in price now than in former years, owing, 

 to the great demand for sulphur in the manufactuie o: 

 powder. The acid commonly purchased and used bj 

 druggists is the concentrated sulphuric acid, which must 

 he largely diluted before it can be applied to the diiSalving 

 of bones. 



