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lect all he can ; apply it carefully to hia crops ; and 

 then, trusting to events, ' let the land ard the muck 

 settle it. 1 " 



Oli THE WINTER MANAGEMENT OF MANURE. 



Wf make this preliminary remark, upon which 

 what we have to offer is in a measure predicated, viz., 

 that all the manure from the stables, yard, and hog- 

 pon should be carried out in the spring for the corn 

 and pQtato crops. . 



The objects to be obtained in the winter manage, 

 ment of manure are, 



1. To prevent waste by leaching and drainage ; 



2. To prevent its becoming fire-fanged ; and, 



3. To prevent more than moderate or incipient 

 fermentation. 



1. Where cattle-yards are upon a slope, or are con- 

 vex, or nearly upon a level surface, the liquid portions 

 of the manure, which may be termed, in a measure, 

 the cooked food 'of plants, continually pass off and 

 are lost. Heavy rains, and the drip from the barns 

 and sheds, also passing through the manur:; in their 

 escape from the yard, leach and deprive it of its finest 

 and most fertilizing properties. 



The remedies against this evil consist, first, in giv- 

 ing a concave or dish shape to the yard. The earth 

 excavated from the centre being deposited upon the 

 borders, which should be fifteen or twenty feet broad, 

 with a slight inclination to the centre, a dry passage 

 to the barn is secured, and a sufficient space of dry 

 ground to feed the stock upon which run at large. 

 Secondly, the yard should be bedded, after it is clean- 

 ed, with peat or swamp earth, if the farm affords it, 

 six to twelve inches deep ; or, if this is not to be had, 

 with any other porous waste earth ; and afterward 

 should be kept well littered with straw, stalks, po- 

 tato-tops, ana the coarse grass and weeds of the 

 farm. This shape of the yard prevents the escape 

 of the liquids, and the earth and litter absorb and be- 



