DIFFERENT KINDS OF MAKUEB. 



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seems to mc to be a good plan, as they get more fresh air and ex- 

 ercise than if confined." 



" We do not lose much manure," said I, " by feeding in the yards. 

 You let a dozen pigs sleep in a pen all night, and as soon as they 

 hear you putting the food in the troughs outside, they come to the 

 door of the pen, and there discharge the liquid and solid excre- 

 ments on the mass of manure left there on purpose to receive and 

 absorb them. I am well aware that as pigs are often managed, we 

 lose at least half the value of their manure, but there is no neces- 

 sity for this. A little care and thought will save nearly the whole 

 of it. 



BUYING MANURE BY ^fEASURE OR WEIGHT. 



The Deacon and I have just been weighing a bushel of different 

 kinds of manure made on the farm. We made two weighings of 

 each kind, one thrown in loose, and the other pressed down firm. 

 The following is the result : 



WEIGHT OP MANURE PER BUSUEL, AND PER LOAD OF 50 BUSHELS. 



No. 



KIND AND CONDITION OF MANURES. 



V= 



>v fq ^ i .S O 3 

 «;; .5 U K^ rf3 



iFresh Lorsc-maniirc free from straw 



I " " " '• " '" piL'SScri. 



Fresh liorse-minure, as used for bedding pi'^s. 



Horse-manure from piLj cellar 



I " •' " '• " ])ressed. . 



iPi?-nianure 



" " pressed 



Ipis^-niannre and dry earlli 



Sliecp-manure from o|)eii shed 



I " " " " " pressed.. 



Sheep-manure from closed shed 



I ». .1 I. li i. pressed. 



Fresh cow-dung, free fiom straw 



Ilen-manure 



I " •• pressed 



pressed. 



lbs. 



5.5 

 28 

 4(i 

 50 

 T2 

 57 

 75 

 98 

 42 

 65 

 28 

 38 

 87 

 34 

 4S 



lbs. 

 1875 

 2750 

 1400 

 2:;00 

 2500 

 3600 

 2850 

 3750 

 4000 

 2100 

 3250 

 1400 

 1900 

 4.350 

 1700 

 2400 



" In buying manure," said the Deacon, " it makes quite a differ- 

 ence whether the load is trod down solid or thrown loosely into the 

 box. A load of fresh hor.se-manure, when trod tlown, weighs half 

 as much again as when thrown in loose." 



" A load of horse-manure," said Charley, " after it has been used 

 for bedding pigs, weighs 3,600 lbs., and only 2,300 lbs. when it is 

 thrown into the pens, and I suppose a ton of the ' double- worked ' 

 manure is fully as valuable as a ton of the fresh horse-manure. If 

 so, 15 ' loads' of the pig-pen manure is equal to 34 ' loads' of the 

 stable-manure." 



