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markable in regard to the corn crop, where the butts and husks 

 instead of being carried into the barn and yards to be there 

 used as food or converted into manure as litter, are left to per- 

 ish in the field, returning comparatively nothing to the earth ; 

 and though browsed by cattle, yet yielding under these circum- 

 stances nothing deserving consideration. You will pardon me 

 if I speak of such a practice as wasteful and slovenly. Every 

 vegetable product on a farm, which can be used advantage- 

 ously as food, should be so appropriated ; and what will not 

 answer as food should be carefully collected for the purpose of 

 littering the styes, stables, and yards. The great rule should 

 be to gather up the fragments that nothing be lost. 



In the next place almost every farm furnishes in some bog- 

 hole or reservoir valuable materials for compost manure, which 

 if carefully conveyed to the styes and yards to be worked 

 over and made to absorb the liquids which are there float- 

 ing, will turn to great advantage. The conveyance of com- 

 mon dirt other than sufficient for this absorbing purpose will 

 not pay the labor of transportation ; for the manure may as 

 well be mixed with it in the field as in the barn yard, and the 

 labor of carting be saved. In some parts of the country, as 

 for example in Bernardston, where the soil is cold and hungry, 

 there are extensive depositories of peat mud, which, where 

 properly managed, and made to undergo a fermentation by the 

 intermixture of horse manure, a process well known to intelli- 

 gent farmers, and by the discovery of which the name of an 

 English nobleman has been immortalised, will yield a valuable 

 manure, precisely suited to the soils among which it is found. 



The agriculture of the country is not yet in a sufficiently 

 advanced state to pay much attention to the saving of liquid 

 manures ; as in the best cultivated countries of Europe, where 

 it is considered as the most useful form of applying all aoimal 

 manures ; and where every farm is furnished with the means 

 of preserving and of applying this most powerful stimulus to 

 vegetation. Provision for the same purposes will presently be 

 made among us, when our farmers feel more sensibly, than 



