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under stables, the dang is thrown down into them, and 

 is there protected from the wasting influence of the 

 weather ; but even here it is liable to suffer injury, 

 unless hogs are permitted to root among it, or unless 

 the cellar is frequently cleaned out. An approved 

 practice is, to scatter the dung from the stables over 

 the cattle-yard, which thus retards fermentation, pre- 

 vents waste, and produces a homogeneous mass of ex- 

 cellent manure. 



3. The Hog-pen. Hogs are excellent animals for 

 manufacturing manure, if they are furnished with the 

 raw material, as peat, earth, straw, weeds, &c. and a 

 suitable place for conducting the process. The com- 

 posts of their formation is among the cheapest and the 

 best that are used upon the farm. The slops of the 

 kitchen, the weeds of the garden, the refuse fruits of 

 the orchard, and the offal of the farm, are readily con- 

 verted, by these swinish laborers, into meat or manure. 

 Hogs are profitable laborers, and should be employed to 

 as great an extent upon the farm as the proprietor's 

 circumstances will permit. 



4 The Sheep-fold may be made an abundant 

 source of fertility to the farm. Economy in its manage- 

 ment consists in giving abundance of litter, repeated 

 at short intervals, sufficient to absorb the urine, prevent 

 wasting exhalations, and secure health to the flock, and 

 in applying the dung in its recent or unfermented state. 



CABBAGE-PLANTS. 



WooD-ASHES placed about cabbage-plants will much 

 improve their condition. Frequent hoeing will serve 

 to keep the ground moist, and will help their growth. 



The dryest ground in the garden is in the thickest 

 growth of weeds. These suck up the moisture and 



give it the winds. 



