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gathering up and saving. It is money in his pocket. One man 

 will burn a few bushels of soil, and setting it near the privy, will 

 throw, every day, a tew handsfull on the pile of excrement, and in 

 a few months he will fill his barrels with the most valuable poud- 

 rette, that another man will go to the city and pay a large price for. 

 One man will set a few barrels of ashes in a convenient place, and 

 cause the house-cleaner to empty the urine of the night into them. 

 In a few months he will have his ashes thoroughly saturated with 

 salts and organic mutter the most valuable. 



In England, farmers do not consider it any hardship to dig cis- 

 terns, in which to save all the liquid excrements of the cows and 

 horses, and with a water cart, spread it over their pastures and 

 meadows. 



Many object to the use of human excrement, on account of its 

 offensiveness. This can be easily prevented, and at the same time 

 by an agent that is a valuable addition to the manure heap. The 

 sulphate of iron (copperas), is a powerful deodorizer, and a few 

 cents worth added to the night soil deprive it of any offensive smell 

 for a length of time sufficiently long to remove it. 



A great many bones are wasted on every farm that make valu- 

 able manure, and are easily prepared for use. Let a barrel be de- 

 voted to bones, and whenever a bone is thrown into it, cover it up 

 with unleached ashes. Let the barrel stand in the weather, and in 

 a few months the bones will be so friable they may be easily broken 

 and converted into an unadultered bone dust, better than can be 

 bought in any of the agricultural stores. Or, if he cannot wait 

 this slow process, they are easily burned and crushed. 



In making soap, much fine phosphate of lime is thrown out in 

 the shape of half eaten bones, and in spent lie. Soap suds are also 

 a fine addition to the manure or compost heap. In these are found 

 not only the alkalies of soda and potash, but also much nitrogenous 

 matter in the shape of grease. All these assist in enriching our 

 heap. 



No farm yard is without the best guano. It is true, the guano 

 of the shops is from sea birds, whose food is fish, but the guano of 

 the chicken house is exceedingly valuable and well worth saving. 

 Mixing it with soil or ashes and sowing over a garden plat, rather 

 thinly, for it is very rich, its effects are seen to the row. However, 

 the dung of fowls and especially of pigeons, is best appHed in the 



