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seems to me to be a good plan, as they get more fresh air and ex- 

 ercise than if confined." 



" We do not lose much manure," said I, " by feeding in the yards. 

 You let a dozen pigs sleep in a pen all iiigut, and as soon as they 

 hear you putting the food in the troughs outside, they come to the 

 door of tho pen, and there discharge the liquid and solid excre- 

 ments on the mass of manure left tiiero on purpose to receive and 

 absorb them. I am well aware that as pigs are often managed, we 

 lose at least half the value of their manure, but there is no neces- 

 sity for tliis. A little care and thought will save nearly the whole 

 of it. 



BUYING MANURE BY MEASURE OR WEIGHT. 



The Deacon and I have just been weighing a bushel of different 

 kinds of manure made on the farm. We made two weighings of 

 each kind, one thrown in loose, and the other pressed down firm. 

 The following is the result : 



WEIGHT OP MANURE PEP. BUSHEL, AND PEU LOAD OF 50 BUSHELS. 



" In buying manure," said the Deacon, " it makes quite a differ- 

 ence whether the load is trod down solid or thrown loosely into the 

 box. A load of fresh horse-manure, when trod clown, weighs half 

 as much again as when thrown in loose." 



" A load of horse-manure," said Charley, " after it has been used 

 for bedding pigs, weighs 3,600 Ibs., and only 2,300 Ibs. when it is 

 thrown into the pens, and I suppose a ton of the ' double-worked ' 

 manure is fully as valuable as a ton of the fresh horse-manure. If 

 so, 15 ' loads' of the pig-pen manure is equal to 24 ' loads' of the 

 stable-manure." 



