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capable of enriching in some way the soil, and all are to 

 be carefully economized. I have known a coarse, sedgy 

 marsh to be reclaimed and brought to yield good English 

 hay, by the mere application of coal ashes. And care 

 must be taken in the proper preparation, as well as sav- 

 ing of these materials. See to it that your stables, vaults, 

 poultry houses, &c., are filled with proper absorbents — • 

 or materials to hold the liquid and volatile portions of the 

 manure,— such as clay, plaster, charcoal, and especially 

 peat earth and ditch mud mingled with leaves, chips, 

 that also contain a valuable supply of carbon, &c. The 

 manure of a dozen fowls, well saved and mixed, is suffi- 

 cient dressing for a large garden ; and that from a goodly 

 flock of hens and pigeons properly composted, will abun- 

 dantly enrich a small farm. The inhabitants of the Ce- 

 lestial Empire, or as they name it, " the Central Flowery 

 Land," the most famous agriculturists and horticul- 

 turists of all the world, in whose territory from reverence 

 to our primitive, fundamental, and right royal art, the 

 Emperor himself holds the annual plough, — whence come 

 the floral splendors of Azalea and Camillia, Aster and 

 Peony, and choicest roses, — employ as their only manures 

 the excrements, solid and liquid, that have been allowed 

 among us of the Occident for centuries to escape and 

 taint the household air from long, fetid and pestilent 

 vaults, and that we have in past ages discarded as use- 

 less. And, had I the direction of the Agricultural Soci- 

 eties in our land, I would offer the first, and by far the 

 largest premium, for the best mode of saving, preparing, 

 and applying this manure ; and the second for the econ- 

 omy and preparation of each and every kind of nutritious 

 compost. Then fill up your barn-cellars, and vaults, and 

 sink drains with clay, peat, mud, &c., that shall absorb 

 every particle of the liquid and gaseous elements, and 

 vihus fulfil the scripture precept, " that nothing be lost," 



