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finished it should be carefully covered over with earth to prevent the 

 volatile parts from escaping. 



It is, however, much better to cart the manure from the yard, and 

 apply it to the land at once, and have it ploughed in. 



Farmyard manure is also very much increased in value when the 

 animals kept in the buildings are fed with a portion of linseed, rape, 

 or cotton cakes ; in fact, the quality of farmyard manure very much 

 depends upon the substances upon which the animals are fed. Thus, if 

 cattle are fed upon linseed-cake, the value of the manure obtained there- 

 from is worth about 4, 10s. for the quantity received from every ton of 

 cake consumed ; and, in the same way, the value of the manure received 

 from the consumption of every ton of the following feeding-substances is 

 worth the sum stated : 



Rape-cake, . . . . 4 15 



Cotton-seed cake, . . . . 650 



Locust beans, . . . . 100 



Malt, . . . . . 1 10 



Potatoes, . . . . ' 070 



Mangols, . . . . . 050 



Turnips and carrots, . . . 046 



Oat, wheat, and barley straw, . . 0120 



Oats, wheat, and barley, . . . 1 12 



Tares, . . . . . 3 14 



Hay clover, . . . . 250 



Hay meadow, . . . . 1 10 



SECTION 2. Vegetable Matter, Leaves, Seaweed, Clovers, Rape, as Manures. 



There are many vegetable substances which can be applied to land as 

 manure. For instance, the leaves of trees are generally allowed to blow 

 about and get dried. These should be collected as soon as they fall, 

 and formed into heaps, and allowed to lie for some time to rot, or mixed 

 with other substances such as cleanings of ditches and road-scrapings. 

 Gardeners are generally fully alive to the value of rotten leaves as a 

 manure for gardening purposes. Seaweed is another vegetable matter 

 which is used along the coast as a manure, and ought to be used more 

 than it is, as it is known to possess very great fertilising properties. 

 There are many of the far-famed farmers in East Lothian who owe a 

 great deal of their success to the application ,of seaweed as a manure. 

 The land on some farms on the coast of East Lothian is worth 20s. per 

 acre more than similar land which has not a right of way to the shore. 

 In some of the best farmed land of the Western Islands of Scotland it 



