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would be saved, if taken up and housed or covered with a roof 

 of prepared muck, to receive the excess gases, when too small a 

 portion of muck to retain them, is mixed with the excretise. 



By liberal use of this article, you will not only render all other 

 manures more lasting, but will, at the same time be adding the 

 necessary amount of organic matter to the soil. Three cords of 

 prepared muck added to an acre of ground, will supply nlore 

 organic matter to the soil than would be furnished by the 

 ploughing in of a full crop of clover. Whereas, when applied 

 unprepared, it only acts as a divisor and does not supply the 

 requirements of soluble organic matters. A soil once fully 

 charged with this material will ever after be capable of re-sup- 

 plying itself with the organic constituents of the atmosphere, 

 like an old garden soil. 



Chemical value of the Decomposing Powders. 

 The decomposing powders used in the preparation of the muck 

 (chloride of lime and carbonate of soda,) will assist in adding to 

 the soil Nos. 4, 9, 10, and 13, and this too, in addition to their 

 use in the decomposition of the muck. 



JVo. 2. As other ingredients are deficient, the silica is in ex- 

 cess, and only requires division by additions of organic matter,, 

 as recommended above, to make it more retentive of both mois- 

 ture and manures. 



JVo. 3-. Your soil is not deficient of alumina, although the 

 free alumina is not large, its amount of silica of alumina is fulK 



J\''o. 4. Lime is deficient in your surface soil, a large portion of 

 what has been previously used being now resident in the sub- 

 soil. Lime always sinks rapidly from surface into sub-soils 

 when the surface soil is deficient in organic matter. 



I would not advise the addition of lime except before or after 

 the addition of organic matter,, but not at the same time. Much 

 lime may be added in the form of sulphate of lime, (plaster of 

 paris,) but this should find its way to the land through the sta- 

 bles, as plaster sprinkled freely about cattle stalls, barn yards 

 &c., absorbs and retain^ large quantities of ammonia and other 

 volatile matters which would otherwise be lost. 



