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throw a cord of muck on this mound; all your weeds, and occasion- 

 ally a handful of shelled corn — the hogs will incessantly root, mix 

 up and turn over the muck, and giving them exercise, and you ma- 

 nure. As fast as the muck is made, it washes down into the ditch, 

 and with the water received from rains, this ditch will make a good 

 wallowing place for the hogs. Alongside the hog pen, place a co- 

 vered shed, with the bottom cemented, and so placed as to discharge 

 fluid into the ditch of the hog pen. Once in every ten days, throw 

 the contents of this ditch into the shed, and should there be any 

 more fluid than necessary, it will run back into the ditch; should 

 the quantity of fluid seem too great, after heavy rains, &c., you 

 have only to bale it upon the muck on the centre mound, with a pail 

 on the end of a pole, thus decreasing the quantity by evaporation 

 and absorption; this, however, will seldom be the case, as the hogs 

 prefer the mixture in the ditch to be of a consistency not quite fluid, 

 and will push the muck from the mound and make the mixture to 

 suit themselves. The contents of this shed is always ready for use 

 as manure, and its quality is most unexceptionable. 



A similar arrangement to that used in the cattle shed, is also 

 used in the horse stable. 



All the house wash should be absorbed by the meadow muck. 



With six oxen, three cows, three horses, ten hogs, the results 

 from house, &c., are at least two cords of manure of prime quality 

 may be procured per day, by the proper use of salt marsh or mea- 

 dow muck; and if the manure should not be wanted for three or 

 four months, in winter, the quantity of muck should be permitted to 

 remain under cover free as possible from currents of air. Should the 

 muck heaps at any time show great heat, cover them with powdered 

 or fine charcoal, or well dried muck, and the gases will be retained 

 and absorbed. 



Should a larger quantity of manure be required, it can be pro- 

 cured from the above means. It may be made from swamp muck 

 thus : 



Muck always well dried; dissolve one bushel of salt in cold water; 

 with this solution slake two bushels shell lime, fresh from the kiln 

 and caustic, turn over this mixture every day for nine days, then 

 mix with one cord of swamp muck, and turn over every ten days; 

 at the end of thirty days in warm, or sixty days in cold weather, it 



