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Taanure that is equal to about half its weight cf: he dry manure prtv 

 pared from night soil, which the French call pc idrette. M. Daillj 

 made a cotnparative trial of these two kinds cf manure, and from 

 actual experiment found that 200 parts of the deposite from th« starch 

 manufactory might be used for 100 of poudrette. Even the water 

 that is used in the manufacture, and from which tlie subsiance m 

 question is deposited, is an excellent manure when thrown upon the 

 ground, a circumstance which is by so much the more fortimate that 

 this water by standing putrefies and throws off' most utFensive ex- 

 halations. By using the liquor to his fields, at once, M. Dailly pre- 

 vents every kind of annoyance to himself and his neighbors, and 

 moreover from his great starch manufactory he realizes in this way 

 an additional profit which he estimates at upwards of jC60 per an- 

 num. Analysis has shown that 100 of this water from the potato 

 starch manufactory represents 17 of moist farm-yard dung. 



In cider countries, the ■pulp of the apples that have been pressed 

 is always thrown upon land as manure. At Bechelbronu we reserve 

 it for our Jerusalem artichokes ; in Normandy it is thought excel- 

 lent for meadows and young orchards.- Analysis of the pulp of ap- 

 ples grown in Alsace shows that when dry it contains a quantity of 

 azote, which places it on the same footing as farm-yard dung, 

 Sinclair informs us that in Herefordshire the pulp of the cider press 

 is made into good manure by being mixed with quick-lime and 

 turned two or three times in the course of the following summer. 

 Doubtless the addition of lime will hasten the decomposition of the 

 woody matter of the pulp ; but it strikes me that this will take place 

 rapidly enough of itself in the ground without contriving any means 

 of accelerating the process. 



Animal remains. The remains of dead animals and the animal 

 matters obtained from the slaughter house are powerful manures, 

 which are much sought after in places where their value is properly 

 appreciated. Scraps and the refuse of skin, hair, horn, tendons, 

 bones,. feathers, <fec., all form invaluable manure. The flesh of ani- 

 mals which die, and so much of that of horses that are slaughtered 

 which cannot be used as food for animals, may be dried after having 

 been previously boiled, and then reduced to powder and applied as 

 manure. The blood of slaughtered animals is less proper as food 

 for hogs, although it is often used in this way, than muscular flesh ; 

 it even occasionally gives rise to serious diseases among these ani- 

 mals. It is most easily prepared as manure, however, for which it 

 answers admirably ; it is enough to coagulate it by exposure to heat, 

 and then having broken it down, to dry it in the air or in the stove. 

 Liquid blood has been employed as manure, but decomposition then 

 takes place so rapidly, that the produc s are exhaled without pro- 

 ducing much eff(ect. This objection may be remedied by two means, 

 either by diluting the blood in a large quantity of water, with which 

 the land is then irrigated, or by mixing it with a considerable mass 

 of vegetable earth, which is then applied like ordinary manure. 

 There is even a pulverulent manure of which blood forms the basis, 

 |?ropared in special establishments m the vicinity of various large 



