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3d. In expediting production. When by manuring with solid 

 excrements, a period of three years often elapses before complete 

 decomposition ensues, whereas when liquid manure is applied it 

 comes into full action in less than three months, and the plants 

 derive the entire advantage. And the returns of capital invested 

 in it will be made in less that one third the time, producing a 

 four-fold increase, besides maintaining the fertility of the soil. 



4th. Liquid manure is at once available to repair the imperfec- 

 tion of other manures, and acts directly for the relief of suffering 

 plants. In a dry scorching spring it will change yellow leaves 

 into a deep, beautiful green — a metamorphosis not obtainable 

 with any solid manure. We all know that minute seeded 

 plants, such, for instance, as clovers, carrots, turnips, and nume- 

 rous others, are exceedingly tender during the early stages of 

 their existence, and require to be urged forward into luxurious 

 growth with the least delay possible, and this can only be done 

 with liquid manure. 



5th. For clovers and all grasses there is no fertilizer equal to 

 well treated liquid; it is the only manure that does not exhaust 

 the soil ; besides, the water with which it is diluted is in itself a 

 capital help for fodder plants; it dissolves, distributes, and, in an 

 inconceivably short time, conveys nourishing matter to growing 

 vegetation. All farmers who have for a long period enriched 

 their fields with solid composts know well what poor result is de- 

 rived for the expenditure and labor of putting on this substance 

 in dry weather ; they further know that two-thirds of it is lost, 

 and if they do not know this fact, I do, from numerous experi- 

 ments and sad experience. 



6 th. Much litter is saved by charging water instead of straw 

 with manure. After straw has served as litter, there is added to 

 it silicate of potash and phosphates, which, when the straw is pu- 

 trefied, are in precisely the same condition in which they were 

 before being assimilated. 



Liquid manure properly fermented gains in quantity, and by 

 by its affinity for other substances in quality, and numerous other 

 conditions, there results from that method of preparing manure 



