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than table salt, what is called coarse-fine salt. Pack the eggs in 

 a stone jar. Put in first a layer of salt, then a layer of eggs, and 

 so on until the jar is filled. Stand the eggs upon the small ends, 

 and do not let them touch. Cover them completely with salt. Set 

 the jar in a cool place. I have known eggs packed in this way to 

 keep a year, and to be as good at the end of that time for cooking 

 as if laid but a few days before. 



POULTRY MANURE A VALUABLE BY-PRODUCT. 



Poultry manure is an exceedingly valuable by-product. It is 

 a highly stimulating manure. It is also a rich plant food. Poul- 

 try manure is more than twice as valuable as sheep or hog 

 manure, and more than three times as valuable as ordinary stable 

 manure, as the following table will show : 



Poultry manure is so powerful that great care must be taken in 

 applying it. It should never be allowed to come into direct con- 

 tact with the roots of the growing plant. When applied in the 

 hill it should be well mixed with the soil. 



Poultry manure supplies nitrogen in large quantities in the form 

 of ammonia, but ammonia being a highly volatile product is rapidly 

 dissipated. The problem of the poultrymen, therefore, in dealing 

 with hen manure is to find some substance that will fix the ammo- 

 nia. Sifted earth is not good, for it is apt to contain bacteria 

 which act destructively on the ammonia compounds. Wood 

 ashes are worse than nothing, for they do not hold ammonia, but 

 drive it off by their caustic alkaline properties. 



The best thing I have found to preserve the ammonia in hen 



