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stall, while waiting to spread it, by far the better plan, if 

 there is time and opportunity, is to take it outside, and air 

 and dry it. 



Mucking-out with shavings and ferns may be effected in 

 the same way as with straw. 



With moss litter, sawdust, tan, fir needles, and sand, we may 

 get all the dung on the surface and all the wet spots removed 

 with a hand-shovel or rake and skep, and the whole of the 

 bed raked carefully over, so as to find all contaminated parts, 

 which should be promptly taken away. When the daily 

 allowance is added, it should be distributed evenly through 

 the remainder of the bedding. The whole of the bedding 

 need not be taken out to be aired and dried and the floor 

 purified oftener than once a week. 



DISPOSAL OF USED LITTER. 



The best plan is to remove the whole of the used litter 

 and dung from the precincts of the stable every day, which 

 can be conveniently done by means of a cart lined with metal 

 and made for the purpose, if expense be no great object If 

 a midden in the premises cannot be dispensed with, it should 

 be placed well away from the stables and the water supply, 

 and should have its foundation and sides of waterproof 

 material, so that the surrounding ground may not become 

 contaminated in any way. 



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Heiden (Storer's Agriculture] states that for each 100 Ib. of 

 dry matter which the horse consumes, he gives off 210 Ib. of 

 dung and urine. An ordinary cart horse will produce about 

 j cwt. of dung and urine in twenty-four hours. The quantity 

 of manure obtained in a stable from the dung, urine, and 

 soiled bedding varies according to the amount of food and 

 bedding, and according to the length of time the horse is in 



