58 GENERAL PEINCIPLES. 



and brush, soot, blood, animal flesh, soap suds, and slops 

 from the kitchen, and, in fact, everything decomposable 

 may be used, to increase the bulk of the manure heap, 

 taking care that everything likely to waste by evapora- 

 tion be covered at once with muck, charcoal, or some 

 material calculated to absorb the gases evolved by de- 

 composition. We very frequently see people, in the 

 spring of the year, when their garden is undergoing a 

 purifying and fitting up process, carry to the highway all 

 the brush, dry stems of plants, and all the wreck of the 

 pre\aous season's work, there to make a bonfire to get it 

 out of the way, while at the same moment they complain 

 sadly of the lack of manm'e. 



There was no such thing as a manm^e heap on the pre- 

 mises. 



Section 3. — Modes of Applying Manuee. 



Where an acre or several acres of ground are to be 

 prepared for trees, the better way is to spread the manm'e 

 over the surface and turn it in with the plough. When it 

 is scarce and economy necessary, it may be applied 

 around the roots, by mixing with the earth at planting 

 time. 



Quantity to he Applied. — ^This, of course, depends on 

 two things, the necessities of the soil and the quality of 

 the manm-e. If the land be poor, an even covering of 

 two or three inches should be given ; if in tolerable good 

 condition, one inch will be sufiicient. One inch of well 

 decomposed animal manure will be equal to three inches 

 of a partially decayed compost. 



Section 4. — Liquid Manure. 

 Manure in a liquid state has these advantages to recom- 



