88 ON Manures. 



have stables in the country, and let your horse stand 

 several feet below the barn floor. He will be warmer 

 in winter, and cooler in summer, than he will be 

 perched up on a plank floor ; he will be out of the way 

 of both flies and frost; he will keep your manure 

 from burning and from freezing ; you will save all the 

 liquid ; and your horse will stand vastly more at ease 

 than he can on any plank floor. 



And what does all this cost you ? A barn thus built 

 will cost you less ; you save the expense of a floor that 

 is always wanting repairs ; you save the trouble of 

 daily cleaning out your stable ; you save your horse's 

 feet, the hoofs of which will grow all winter, and be 

 in good order for shoeing ; you treble the value of your 

 manure, for you save every gill of the liquid, and you 

 keep it in the most perfect manner without heating or 

 wasting, till the very moment you want it for your 

 compost heap, or for your field ; for as soon as you fork 

 it out from under your horse — and not before, though 

 you delay it till June — fermentation commences, and 

 you can have the whole advantage of this fermenta- 

 tion. 



This new process costs you the labor of throwing 

 under your horse any rubbish whatever that may lie 

 in your way, — loam, weeds, scrapings of the door-yard, 

 leaves, poor hay, straw, — every thing that will absorb 

 the liquids is thus turned to manure ; and if you keep 

 your horse the whole year in the stable — as you should 

 do if you intend he should be handy and useful to you — 

 his manure will amount to fifteen loads, and will prove 

 more durable in your soil than any you shall make 

 from neat cattle or from hogs. 



The liquid part of horse-manure is found to contain 

 great quantities of ammonia, which is well known as 

 one of the best articles for vegetation. The whole 

 philosophy of thus preserving your manure from over- 

 heating consists in its being excluded from the air by 

 the firm beating which the horse's feet give to it. 



