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as practicable as it is important. To practise it, will 

 save something on the last year's crop ; something for 

 the next year's ; something certainly in comfort ; and, 

 it may he^ something in doctors' bills. In order to 

 practise it successfully, one needs only to throw into 

 the pig-pen, and all like places, including the vault of 

 the necessary, plenty of peat, black mud, or top-soil 

 even, and to see that it is always mT)ist, but not 

 drenched. A little planter would be a help, but is 

 not necessary. If it is not at hand, the other part of 

 the prescription will suffice. Plaster, however, should 

 always be on hand. This, and cured peat, or muck, 

 should never be wanting about the farmer's premises. 



328. The same rule should be observed with regard 

 to every part of the premises. If others suffer bad 

 odors about their farms, they may lose their comfort 

 and their health ; if the farmer suffers them, he will 

 lose his wealth also ; for these are the very quint- 

 essence of his manures ; and it is a singular, but well- 

 known fact, that growing plants absorb with avidity 

 what is most noxious to animal life. 



MANURE OF THE SHEEP-FOLD. 



329. I shall not speak of this at large, because I 

 suppose it to constitute a portion of the barn-cellar 

 manure. If the apartment for sheep be so situated, 

 that it cannot conveniently be thrown down with 

 t'^e manure of horses and cattle, then it would be well 

 to mix peaty matter with it through the winter ; and 

 care should be taken that it do not dry up and become 



