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200 lbs. of Peruvian guano composted, after being finely pow- 

 dered, with one cord of decomposed muck, to whicli half a bu- 

 shel of bones dissolved by sulphuric acid is added, will do more 

 service to your land than ten loads of stable manure, of a half 

 cord each ; the bulk will be but one-fifth, and hence the expense 

 of spreading will be much less. To dig one cord of muck from 



your meadow, including cartage, will cost, $0 31 



200 lbs. Peruvian guano, 5 00 



Half bushel of dissolved bones, 60 



|5 91 

 which is less than the cost of carting ten loads of stable manure 

 from the city. 



One hogshead of the ammoniacal liquors of the gas-works, with 

 twenty-five cents worth of sulphuric acid thrown into it before 

 being composted with ten loads of your muck, will make a ma- 

 nure very eflacient for your soil ; and after the missing inorganic 

 constituents are once added, such a compost would be worth prac- 

 tically its bulk of stable manure. 



Nitrogenous manures are always valuable to vegetable gardens, 

 and if you will refer to an analysis of Peruvian guano, you will 

 find that it contains many of the ingredients required by your 

 soil for permanent improvement, besides supplying the ammonia 

 and other nitrogenous matters so valuable for immediate use. 



Guano should never be mixed with manures intended for fer- 

 mentation ; if simply mixed through decomposed muck or char- 

 coal dust, it will, by its volatile character, disseminate itself 

 through to the mass and be retained by it. So large a garden as 

 yours requires an extensive manure-shed, to which the results of 

 the stables, barn, &c., should be frequently removed, and unless 

 at least ten times the bulk of muck has been added to the ma- 

 nures before being brought there, it should be there added. At 

 the corner of this shed should be a cistern to receive the drain- 

 age of the heap, supplied with a pump to throw the drainage 

 back on the heap, which pump should be used twice a week. If 

 the heap give no drainage, then throw water into the cistern and 

 pump up. 



