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his stable manure heap at the end, or in rear of his 

 barn, to the impoverishing ravages and inroads of the 

 rains, the wind, and the snow, a scandal alike to 

 good taste and good husbandry. The liquids are of 

 no less value in his estimation than the solids, and 

 the most careful expedients are devised, as circum- 

 stances require, to see that nothing be lost, but that 

 everything be preserved, in the greatest order and 

 perfection. His stable, barn-yard, and piggery, are 

 regarded as so many manufactories of manures ; and 

 his cattle and swine are each made to contribute in 

 the best possible manner to this end. " Every hog 

 kept by a farmer," says Mr. Phinney, of Lexington, 

 (who is the highest authority on this subject, as well 

 as on all others pertaining to practical agriculture,) 

 "should be required to prepare ten loads of compost 

 manure in the course of a year, which he will cheer- 

 fully do if the owner will furnish him with the ma- 

 terials, such as loam, peat, or swamp mud," &c.— 

 The same distinguished cultivator assured me, as 

 the result of his experience, that thirty dollars worth 

 of manure judiciously applied to an acre of ground 

 planted with Indian corn, over and above the usual 

 quantity allowed for this purpose, would be compen- 

 sated the first year, in the increased production of 

 the crop, estimating the corn at one dollar the bush- 

 el ; and that the additional fertility thus imparted to 

 the soil, available in the greatly increased produc- 

 tions of future years, would be the net profit. He 

 further assured me, and in this I am certain he would 

 be confirmed by the most successful cultivators in 

 our county, that the great secret of good husbandry 



is LIBERAL MANURING.* 



In order, however, to secure the full effect of such 

 a course of husbandry, it is necessary that the ground 

 should be properly prepared, and that the nature of 

 the soil to which the manure is to be applied should 

 be fully understood. And here is ample opportuni- 



* Appendix, A. 



