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Why, sir, ask these farmers why they do not purchase concen- 

 trated manures, and thereby increase at once both the fertility 

 and the products of their soil by this means, and they will im- 

 mediately reply, they " can't aflbrd it" — " that they cannot raise 

 from their soil sufficient to meet their current expense for labor, 

 &c., already ; and how can we safely incur the necessary expense 

 without an adequate resource to meet it '?" Then, sir, just say to 

 them for the encouragement of their faith, " Gather and collect 

 from every possible resource all the manure you can, then im- 

 prove, protect, and save all you do collect;" and then, sir, they 

 will soon be enabled to begin to purchase '• concentrated fertiliz- 

 ers," and ere long they will be able to apply them additionally, 

 as far as is necessary, and that at a net annual profit of from 50 

 to 100 per cent upon the investment, if judiciously managed and 

 applied. 



In the husbanding of all the manure possible upon a farm, I 

 w^ould adopt the language of an old couplet, usually applied to 

 another matter, however : 



" Keep all you've got, 

 And get all you can." 



And to accomplish this the most efficiently, I know of no plan 

 better than the one presented to the consideration of the club, 

 with an accompanying draft also, at its last meeting, viz , that 

 of commencing a continuous length of shed roofing, from above 

 the entire front of the stabling, in width corresponding to the 

 entire length of the barn, the ridge of which meeting the eaves 

 directly under the middle point of the barn roof, and extending 

 back sufficiently far to cover a space, or range of the yard, ade- 

 quately spacious for the comfortable accommodation of all the 

 stock of cattle, large and small, ever designed to be kept together 

 upon the farm. The length of this shed, the width of which, 

 corresponding with the length of the barn, should be sufficient 

 not only to accommodate all the cattle, but also to cover all the 

 manure that may ever be accumulated at one time upon the farm, 

 from the influence both of the sun and rain. If the stabling of 

 the barn, as is generally the case, should front upon the south, 

 the western side should be closely sided up during the winter 



