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nse in a less troublesome way. After being carried 

 off in the spring — or better, in the latter part of win- 

 ter, while it is yet cool — the bottom of the vault 

 should be covered, at least a foot in depth, with fine, 

 black peat or mud, previously prepared and dried for 

 the purpose. A little of the same should be thrown 

 down daily through the summer, and once a week or 

 fortnight during the winter. If a little plaster be oc- 

 casionally added, it will be well, though this is not 

 essential. The peat itself will be sufficiently deodor- 

 tzingj if put down in such quantities as to be kept 

 fairly moist and no more. It will withhold all foul 

 odor. It is well to have an opening in the rear of the 

 building, and a pile of prepared peat lying near, that 

 it may be thrown down without much trouble, lest it 

 be neglected. Good farming requires daily attention 

 to many little things, and unless a previous prepara- 

 tion for them be made, these little things, important 

 in the aggregate, are apt to be lost sight of A farmer 

 might better bring peat several miles for the foregoing 

 purpose than not to have it. In an ordinary family, 

 as many as five loads of a kind of poudrette can thus 

 be made, not as concentrated nor as portable as the 

 article bought under that name in our cities, but suffi- 

 ciently so for home use, and excellent for any soils 

 except peaty, and for any crops except it may be for 

 potatoes and other roots. For cabbages, wheat, corn, 

 or clover, it would be first-rate. If used for corn, and 

 especially if used as a top dressing for old mowing, it 

 would be well to apply plaster pretty plentifully with 

 it. I know of nothing that will bring up red and 

 white clover on an old mowing like it. 

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