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and mix this up with the blood of animals, and even the guts, say as 

 much as three bushels will absorb, and you will have the richest 

 compost that can be made ; add two bushels of wood ashes, and then 

 you make it still better, and then you have some 14 or 15 bushels of 

 manure at the actual cost of 65 cents, or say with labor 75 cents, or 

 5 cents a bushel, worth past all question 25 cents a bushel, and I 

 would as soon have it as guano. 



It does not do to mix lime with animal manure. I mix lime with 

 marsh mud and refuse of the flax mill above referred to, and find it 

 of great value. I am satisfied that on my clay lands anthracite ashes 

 is of value, if for no other purpose than simply to open the lands and 

 let air into the soil. Now in addition to all these sources of manure, 

 I have three farm horses, three pleasure horses, four colts, two bulls,- 

 four oxen, eight cows, ten heifers, and twenty pigs. 



You will see I am in the way of making my lands rich without 

 going to Peru. 



ROSWELL L. COLT. 



TURNIPS AS FOOD FOR CATTLE. 



BY JOHN WILKINSON. 



Turnips may be liberally fed to milch cows without imparting any 

 unpleasant flavor to the milk or butter, by the following process: 

 Place the whole turnips into a steam-box, (with chopped hay, straw, 

 or corn fodder, and steam them until they are soft.) There should 

 be some apertures in the top of the box, that the steam may escape 

 whilst they are cooking; after they are soft the apertures should be 

 closed, and the steaming process continued until the material with 

 which they are steamed is perfectly saturated with water and the fla- 

 vor of the turnips. 



By this process all the strong unpleasant flavor of the turnip is re- 

 moved, and a ^ abatable one imparted. In connection with this ex- 

 periment we m\de the following invaluable one, in testing the com- 

 parative value of cold and warm food and drink for milch cows. 

 The experiment was conducted thus: A herd of nine'cows in a stable 



