178 MANURES. 



834. Many families make use of chloride of lime 

 as a deodorizer^ or disinfecting agent^ about the privy. 

 They pay for it ten or twelve cents a pound ; and, at 

 that, it is ineffectual unless used in considerable quan- 

 tities. Peat is cheaper and better. When peat can- 

 not by any means be obtained, black, vegetable 

 mould from the edge of the wood, or wherever great 

 quantities of leaves have drifted together and decayed, 

 will answer. If this cannot be obtained, there is a 

 sort of home-made chloride of lime, which can be pre 

 pared easily, and is worth more for agricultural pur 

 poses than it costs. 



2>2>b. To prepare it, take one barrel of lime and one 

 bushel of salt ; dissolve the salt in as little water as 

 will dissolve the whole ; slack the lime with the 

 water, putting on more water than will dry-slack it, 

 so much that it will form a very thick paste ; this will 

 not take all the water ; put on therefore a little of the 

 remainder daily, till the lime has taken the whole. 

 The result will be a sort of impure chloride of lime ; 

 but a very powerful deodorizer, equally good for all 

 out-door purposes with the article bought under that 

 name at the apothecaries, and costing not one twen- 

 tieth part as much. This should be kept under a shed 

 or some out-building. It should be kept moist, and it 

 may be applied wherever offensive odors are gene- 

 rated, with the assurance that it will be effective to 

 purify the air, and will add to the value of the ma- 

 nure much more than it costs. It would be well for 

 every farmer to prepare a quantity of this, and have 

 it always on hand. 



