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months, part with a large amount of water, and it can then be drawn 

 to the barns and stables, and used for bedding, or for composting 

 with manure. Or if you do not want to draw it to the barn, get 

 some refuse lime from the lime-kiln, and mix it with the muck 

 after it has been thrown up a few weeks, and is partially dry. 

 Turn over the heap, and put a few bushels of lime to every cord 

 of the muck, mixing the lime and muck together, leaving the heap 

 in a compact form, and in good shape, to shed the rain. 



" When you have straightened, and cleaned out, and deepened 

 the creek," continued the Doctor, "commence at z on the new 

 creek, and cut a ditch through the swamp to y. Throw the muck 

 on one side, and the sand on the other. This will give you some 



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good, rich muck, and at the same time drain your swamp. Then 

 cut some under-drains from y towards the higher land at w, r, and 

 A, and from / to x. These will drain your land, and set free the 

 inert plant-food, and such crops of timothy as you will get from 

 this swamp will astonish the natives, and your bill for medical at- 

 tendance and quinine will sink to zero." 



The Doctor is right. There is money and health in the plan. 



Prof. S. W. Johnson, as chemist to the Conn. State Ag. Society, 

 made accurate analyses of 33 samples of peat and muck sent him 

 by gentlemen from different parts of the State. The amount of 



