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SOILS AND MANURES 



COMPOSITION OF LONDON STABLE MANURE (DYER). 



COMPOSITION OF HORSE AND Cow MANURE (STORER). 



MANURIAL VALUE. 



It is unnecessary to magnify the fertilising value of 

 farmyard manure. It cannot properly be compared with 

 that of special manures, though this has sometimes 

 teen done to the disadvantage of the latter. The 

 manurial value of farmyard manure depends chiefly 

 upon its mechanical effects, the amounts of fertilising 



