( 6 ) 
susceptible of solution, and in this form becomes 
the aliment of that artificial vegetation, which is the 
work of man, and which leaves so little on the earth, 
to compensate for the great deal it takes from it. 
In a course of years, therefore, there will be an‘ac- 
tual loss or subtraction of matter, useful or necessa- 
ry to the growth of plants, which can only be re- 
established by manures of vegetable or animal ori- 
gin. The most approved methods of preserving and 
applying these, must therefore be among the objects 
most important to the agriculturist; and that the 
reader may better understand the reasons of the | 
practice we mean to recommend, we begin the dis- 
cussion with Kierwan’s analysis of stable ma- 
nures.(1) 
ro Sieben iierbiscx)-sukt-onlied whup faded 
3 lBs 
sng S a=} 
a Bitbin a (id. | 
be ~ 1S iris | B 368 
f/f /s |2 | 8 Ree 
OjH1O 7m 1m jor 
13 Cow dung, 8.75] 41.20) 0.15] 2. 4].0. meg 
io « Horse duag, & 10. 2} 1.50) 0.50} 3. 0} 0.21 89.77 
3° Sheep dung, § *©/25. 0/10.28/29. 0,29. 0} 0.72 68.00 | 
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) ae ee ee ee ee oe 
The elementary parts of these manures, as ex- 
hibited in this table, sufficiently indicate the mode 
of preserving them. _ Wien dropped in the fields and 
in small parcels, by cattle, they exhibit no signs of 
fermentation, nor undergo, in that state, any degree 
of chemical decomposition; but when brought to- 
(1) Tull and Du Hamel’s doctrine, that frequent ploughings and sowings supersced- 
ed the necessity of manure, is no longer held by any well instructed agriculturist. 
The maxim of Oliver de Serris is much better founded. “ Lebien labourer, le bien 
fumer, est tout le secret de l’agriculture.” ‘Till well and manure well, is the whole 
secret of agriculture. 
