158 MANURES. 



implies a great deal of labor, but it is the most profit* 

 able labor done on a farm. 



VALUE OF MANURES. 



295. The farmer's study is not to avoid labor, but 

 to make labor pay well ; and nothing is better estab- 

 lished than that the labor of saving manure^ of increas- 

 ing its quantity^ and improving its quality, is the most 

 profitable that he can perform or employ. I will not 

 say that manure is the farmer's gold^ but it is that 

 which brings him gold. About in proportion as the 

 barn-cellar, the yard, and the pig-pen, are filled with 

 manures, will the purse be filled with the shining 

 metal ; and, what is more, about in the same propor- 

 tion will the farmer have the exquisite pleasure of 

 seeing everything on his farm SHINE. 



296. The subject of manures is the golden subject of 

 agriculture. If I have wfitten obscurely before, here 

 I wish to write plainly. Let me talk, on this subject, 

 not about the farmer, but to him. For the sake of 

 being short and to the point, let me say /and you^ in- 

 stead of the more roundabout way of saying the writer 

 andjAe reader, 



29T. For every load of manure, made by a sleepy, 

 listless mode of farming, you must m-ahe five loads. Set 

 this down to begin with. Let the quality be improved. 

 How are these things to be done ? 



