VI CONTENTS. 



(IIAITIJK XXXIV. 

 Manures for Special Crops.— Hops.— Inaian Corn.— Turnips.— Mangel-Wurzel 

 or buiiar-Bocib.— Cal)ba;,'i;:', l*ar.-nip8. Lettuce, Onions:, etc 274 



ClIAPTEIt XXXV. 



Manures for Gardens and Orcliur.lti.— .Maikci Oarileus.-Sceil -rowin:; Furma. 

 — Private Cari]en:'.—lIol-be(ls.— Manure for Nurrtcryiiien.— Fruit tirowers! 

 — Ueu-Munuru \)ni 



vn.WTER XXXVI. 

 Different Kimlsof Manures.— Cow Manure.— Slieep Manure.— Buying Manure. 

 —Liquid .Manure.— Ni-liL-oil and Sewa-c.— Peruvian Guano.-SaUs of Am- 

 monia and Nitrate of Soda g^Uj 



CHAITEU XXXVI L 

 Bone-Duel and Snp.rpliosphaie of Lime.— Bone fiirnls'liC!. Nitrogen as well as 

 Phospliaie of Lime.— Increasing the Availal)iliiy of Hone willi Sulphuric 

 Acid .,] J 



CHAPTER XXXVIIL 



Special Manures.- Liel)ig'a Views.- Special Manure for Whc.it and Turnips. 

 — Rolhamsted Expcrinient.s tHO 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 

 Value of Fcrlilizers.— Cost per pound of the Essential ConstitnentH of Ferti- 

 lizers.— Value of fJuanos.—Poiash as a Manure .T2-1 



CHAPTER XL. 



ReBtoring Fertility to the Soil, a Chapter hy Sir John Bmnet Jjtwes.-Tho 

 Treatment of a Poor Farm, to Restore it must Profitably. Meal-making 

 the Back hone of the Sy-!t<m. -The Ise of Sh.-cp to Manure the Soil.— 

 The Feeding of Ci#ton-seed Cake.— Artifleial Manure- nn^ Pnifltahle on 

 Poor Land. — The Loss of Nitrogen.— The Fomiatiun of Nitric Acid .•H2 



APPENDIX. 

 Letter from Edward .Tessop.— From Dr. E. h. Siiirti-vaiit.- From M. C. Weld. 

 —From Peter Iliiidirson.— From J. B. M. Anderson.— Manure Slalislira of 

 Long Island.— Letter from .1. II. Rushniore.— Letter from John E. Biickim. 

 — Manure in Philadelphia.— Various other Letters S33 



