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fresh as possible. If not mixed with solid matter, it 

 should be diiuled with water, as, when pure, it con- 

 tains too much animal matter to form a proper lluid nou- 

 rishment for arsorption by the roots oi plants. It can 

 be employed with great benefit both on meadows and 

 arable lands. When applied to meadows, it should be 

 Sprinkled during the winter and early in the spring, 

 when the rains will wash it into the soil. 



In some places, stable floors are made with clay, or 

 paved with stone, with a little descent from the cattle's 

 heads ; or a light descending floor of plank, and a wator- 

 tight gutter, that conveys the urine from all the stallt 

 to a cistern, which is supplied with a pump. The fluid 

 is conveyed and applied to the land b}^ means of a cask, 

 which is mounted on wheels, being filled at the purnp. 

 Or it can be collected in a pit and filled by paiis with 

 long handles. It may also be saved under the floors of 

 the stalls, by a large quantity of earth laid there to ab- 

 sorb it; or by a sufficient quantity of litter laid under 

 the cattle for the purpose; ana by throwing earth in the 

 puddles which form from dnn^ heaps, k,c. in the yard. 

 It would be a most important improvement, to dig a pit 

 contiguous to the feeding stall, of a size adapted to the 

 number of creatures fed ; this should be filled with good 

 loam, and all the urine conducted into it. It is surpri- 

 sing how large a quantity can thus be enriched in one 

 winter. The pit should be covered to exclude the rain 

 and frost. A barn cellar would furnish the most conve- 

 nient place. It is the opinion of Mr. Pickering, that for 

 the want of such a reservoir for saving tbe urine of our 

 cattle, more than half of our winter made manure, (and 

 this is the farmer's chief dependance) is lost. Urine and 

 the draining from the dunghill, are much better than 

 dung for truit trees, as penetrating better to their roots, 

 and not harboring insects. This manure, forces newly 

 planted cabbages in a most remarkable manner. 



Siraxv^ is very valuable, not only in consequence of 

 its own substance, but from the quantity of liquid mat- 

 ter it absorbs. B}' carelessness in reaping, perhaps one 

 fourth part is left upon the ground, which is generally 

 wasted by rains and storms. When straw is used for lit- 

 ter, either ibr hogs, or cattle, or horses, it is generally 

 aJiowed that one ton (the usual product of one acre ©f 



