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stuff for manure not worth so much by 50 per cent, as 

 the contents of the common sewers. Night soil is one 

 of the strongest, if not the strongest, manures it is 

 possible to get. I know that the Boards of Health 

 have many scruples, and offer numerous objections to 

 the contents of the common sewers being brought 

 aboveground in the neighbourhood of a large popula- 

 tion, and think by keeping it underground to avert 

 disease and death ; but I take particular notice that 

 we have quite as much disease and death now as ever 

 we had, even where £50,000 have been spent to carry 

 the sewage of the town away underground into the 

 sea. No harm can or will come from the exposure of 

 night soil if some gypsuni is put into it or thrown over 

 it as soon as it is aboveground, and it is then covered 

 over with earth. Empty the cesspools during Decem- 

 ber, when the evaporating power of the air is less than 

 at any other time, and use the gypsum as a fixer of the 

 ammonia ; let it lie exposed until March, when it may 

 be put upon the ground for Onions, Leeks, Cauliflowers, 

 and Cabbage. 



Night soil may be taken from the cesspool, and 

 carried forthwith and put upon the ground occupied 

 by Gooseberry-trees with great advantage. It will 

 not injure the trees, but prove amazingly beneficial in 

 the production of fine fruit. This is what my master 

 used to do, and I am well acquainted with the results. 

 It may also be wheeled direct from the cesspool to 

 the ground to be cropped with Onions, and there and 

 then spread over the surface, where it may remain till 

 March, when it may be dug in for the crop. In a 

 pulverised state it will prove equal to guano for a 

 top dressing, and maybe sown over Turnips and drilled 

 in with them, and also with Mangel-wurzel. 



Bone Manure. 



Decomposed bones are a fine manure for all pur- 

 poses, and may be used in small portions mixed in 

 the compost for pot plants. The constitution of this 



