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1. The cattle stall, containing six oxen and three cows, will 

 make more than one cord per day, equal in quality to horse manure. 

 I arrange it thus: 



Under the hind feet of the cattle is dug a gutter two and a half 

 feet deep and three and a half feet wide; its surface should be cover- 

 ed with Rosendale cement made fluid with water and put on with a 

 watering pot until the earth refuses to absorb the moisture ; in two 

 days it will be solid and hard as stone. Fill this trench with mea- 

 dow muck to the level of the stable, and cover it with salt hay or 

 straw as bedding; the fluid manure voided by the cattle will pass 

 through the bedding and be absorbed by the muck; every four days 

 this mass is taken out — that time being found sufficient to supply it 

 with the materials for decomposition; it is then placed under a shed, 

 and in three weeks in summer, or ten weeks in winter, it will be as 

 fine as the best stable manure, having gone through the heatings 

 and fermentation. I am perfectly convinced that the urine of ani- 

 mals received by muck while the animal warmth is in the urine, 

 and then assisted by the warmth of the body of the animal lying 

 upon it at night, will decompose ten times as much as would be de- 

 composed by the same amount of urine previously suffered to cool 

 in a cistern. 



Each time this trench is emptied, the surface is covered with char- 

 coal dust, — thus all smell is prevented. 



My hog pen is made a valuable adjunct for the manufacture of 

 manure from meadow muck; — it is thus constructed: A trench is 

 dug two feet wide and five feet deep, around a piece of ground as 

 large as wanted for a piggery; fill this trench with stone, and then 

 grout between the stone with a fluid grout composed of one part of 

 Rosendale cement, two parts of sand, the whole fluid with water 

 and poured in as fast as mixed, until full to the surface; in a few 

 days this wall will be solid as one stone, and impervious to water; 

 then dig out the trench inside the wall three feet wide and one and 

 a half feet deep, varying the depth in different parts, so as to render 

 this ditch a series of inclined planes. Before digging out this in- 

 ner ditch, saturate the earth on the inside the wall with soapers* 

 waste, or spent lye, and as dug out, it may be used as manure. 

 Thus we have a cistern of stone with a mound of earth in the cen- 

 tre, and a ditch between the mound and the wall. At one end of 

 this enclosure place your hog pen, and make this naound of earth 

 the running ground for the hogs. Every day (if you have ten hogg^ 



