224 . POULTRY MANURE. 



SALT INJURIOUS TO FOWLS. 



Salt will speedily kill fowls if thrown out in large quantities, 

 such as the emptying of meat or fish barrels in their way. 



Salt fish is equally destructive, and should never be thrown 

 where they can get it. 



POULTRY MANURE ITS VALUE, ETC. 



The most valuable fertilizer that we have, is poultry manure. 

 Read the following, and profit by it : 



POULTRY MANURE. This is the most valuable of the farm manures, 

 and is entitled to great care in its collection and use. Beyond the 

 amount of water it contains, it is as valuable as guano, and therefore 

 should never be sold by practical farmers to morocco dressers, at 

 twenty-five cents per bushel. The poultry-house should be underlaid 

 with charcoal dust, when it can be procured, so as to receive the hen 

 manure as fast as made. The surface of this charcoal dust should 

 occasionally be raked or removed off to one corner, with a portion of 

 the dung. This may be continued until the mamire is required for 

 use, when it should be thoroughly mixed with ten times its bulk of 

 soil, before being applied to crops. "Where charcoal dust cannot be 

 procured, well decomposed swamp muck, plaster of Paris, or even 

 aluminous clay, may be frequently dusted over the floor of the poultry 

 house, to be mixed with this manure. The object of all this is to 

 receive and retain the ammonia > so as to prevent its liberation from 

 injuring the health of the inmates of the poultry house. All animals, 

 man included, suffer from breathing the effluvia arising from their 

 excretia, and this is particularly true of the feathered tribes. Their 

 natural habits in the wild state, cause them to pass through the upper 

 strata of the atmosphere, and with such velocity as to readily rid 

 themselves of the noxious gasos given off the surface of their bodies, 

 and to be entirely beyond any deleterious influence from the fumes of 

 their excretia. We should, therefore, in the poultry-houses, make 

 such arrangements as will prevent the poultry from inhaling these 

 deleterious gases. Prof. Mapes, 



VALUE OF POULTRY MAXURE. It is lamentable, and disgusting even, 

 to see what a waste is going on in this country of the richest and most 

 valuable manure ever known. We are importing shipload after ship- 

 load of guano, (sea-bird manure,) while hundreds of tons of poultry 

 manure which is asserted to be equal in value is suffered to go to 

 waste in the United States. Each farmer's poultry yard produces so 

 little, that it is suffered to go to waste, and thus the country loses over 

 a million dollars annually. 



Having learned the value of poultry manure, we suppose now our 

 readers would like to know what is the best method to save it. 



First, build a poultry house, if it be no more than a rough scaffold- 

 ing of poles or slabs, laid upon crotches, forming a double pitch roo^ 



