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should all be at one point, inasmuch as the corn-roots 

 fill the whole ground. Still, as the summers in the 

 northern part of our country are short, it may be well 

 to put a portion of the manure, while in a warm, fer- 

 menting state, into the hill, in order to give the corn a 

 start. It is certainly better to give it a sudden push 

 in this way, than to plant it so early that it will be long 

 in coming, and then chilled and stinted after it has 

 come. If corn must be small on the first of June, it 

 is better that it should be small from being young, than 

 *' small of its age." 



831. Sheep manure is excellent for the purpose of 

 thus stimulating the early growth of corn. Perhaps 

 horse and hog manure are equally good, if compost- 

 ed for the purpose, and applied when in gentle fer- 

 mentation. These, however, must not be relied upon 

 to hold out till the last of the season. Either the 

 land must be in high order from previous manuring, or 

 other manure must be harrowed in. 



NIGHT-SOIL. 



332. In European countries, as also in some of our 

 cities, this has been wrought by various processes into 

 a dry, portable, inoffensive, but very powerful manure, 

 under the name of poudrette. This is one of the forms 

 in which the fertilizing agents of the city are returned 

 to the country, whence they came. 



833. On the farm the night-soil may be put to good 



