230 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



I once permitted my neighbor to bury his dead horse in my 

 farm gravel-pit. The consequence was that my laborers left the 

 field by reason of the offensive odor from the equine remains. 

 I complained to my friend that he did not cover the dead horse 

 deep enough. 



He promised me faithfully that the evil should be corrected. 

 But the difficulty was that he could not find a man to do the 

 sepulchral service. In a few days, the evil, like many diseases 

 by nature's recuperative powers cured itself, and my farming 

 was progressing again in its usual monotonous way. 



Now, to save all this trouble and expense, and use these 

 carcases of dead animals to profit, you have only to put them 

 in your dung heap. If you have not a manure heap, just 

 lay the dead animal upon your pasture, and over it dump one 

 or two cords of manure, and your obsequies are scientifically 

 performed. 



This manure will absorb all the elementary substances ema- 

 nating from decomposition of the animal remains. How much 

 this animal matter will add in nitrogen to the value of the 

 manure, I am not, from chemical experiments, able at this time 

 to inform you. 



Some of the manure which I am putting upon my farm is 

 impregnated with this animal matter. 



I am making arrangements to analyze this manure according 

 to the best farming method. 



In making the chemical analysis, I lay the works of Sir 

 Humphrey Davy, Dr. Dana, Liebig and Boussingault, upon the 

 shelf, and proceed with my experiments in the most practical 

 way. I shall not be able to give the equivalents of oxygen, 

 nitrogen, hydrogen, and carbon contained in this manure. 



My scientific analysis will consist in staking off a given 

 number of rods of land upon which this manure has been 

 applied, and then staking off an equal number of rods upon 

 which an equal quantity of the same kind of manure not thus 

 impregnated with animal matter will be applied. Both lots of 

 land are to be planted with Indian corn. 



This Indian corn, in the language of chemistry, is to be my 

 re-agent. 



. My test is to be the sealed half bushel measure ; the difference 

 in productiveness of the lots is to be noted as the Jinale. 



