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with end boards in winter, to keep out the wind and driving storms. 

 Under this, place parallel roosts, and the manure in the night will all 

 drop down into a narrow row beneath. Here place a light loam 

 about a foot deep, rather wider and longer than the roost, and give it 

 a sprinkling of plaster of Paris an inch thick. When this is covered 

 with manure an inch deep, give it a layer of loam four inches deep, 

 and another sprinkling of an inch of plaster, and so continue. In the 

 spring, mix all well together, keep it free from the rain, and use it at 

 the rate of one pint to a hill of corn, or a corresponding quantity for 

 cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins, melons, peas, onions, strawberries, or 

 any other fruit, vegetable, or grain, requiring rich manure, and our 

 word for it, you will have a crop of a superior quality. Thus you 

 will become one out of the many, who is desirous to benefit himself, 

 and assist in saving more than a million of dollars annually to the 

 country. Ainericwn, Agriculturalist. 



Mr. Moses considers the manure of his fowls of much importance, 

 and takes care that it is all saved and applied to his crops. Under 

 the building in which the fowls roost, is a cellar, into which all the 

 manure is put In spring, a few weeks before planting time, the 

 manure is worked over, and mixed with plaster sometimes with 

 plaster and ashes in equal proportions using enough of these articles 

 to make the manure so dry as to pulverize thoroughly. 



This domestic guano, of which Mr. M. sometimes has the quantity 

 of three hundred bushels in a season, produces a powerful effect on, 

 the growth of Indian corn. His mode of applying it is to drop a 

 handful in each hill, which is then covered half an inch or more with 

 earth, in order to prevent the seed from coming in immediate contact 

 with the manure, which experience has shown would prevent its ger- 

 mination. Mr. M. stated that he had tried this compost in comparison 

 with good hog manure, by applving each to corn in the same field and 

 on similar soil. On one part, half a sbovel full of hog manure was 

 put in a hill, and on the other part, a handful of the hen manure 

 compost. The crop was best where the latter was used, and the 

 succeeding crop, (which was oats,) showed the same result in favor of 

 the hen manure. 



On another occasion, he manured ten acres with the hen manure, 

 which produced sixty bushels of corn to the acre. On a part of this 

 piece, he used the manure only on alternate rows, leaving the inter- 

 mediate rows with no application. The ears were " mere nubbins " 

 on the rows that had no manure. He planted pumpkins on a row 

 that had no manure, and on another row that had the proportion 

 given to the rest of the field. The row which had no manure, pro- 

 duced no pumpkins of any value ; the other produced fifty-one fair 

 sized, good pumpkins. 



Mr. M. stated that his son was engaged with another person in the 

 poultry trade, and that in the winter of 1849-50 they sent between 

 twenty and thirty tons to Xew York and Boston. Selected. 

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