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The whole apparatus, including tanks, pipes for fifty acres cost $1,500. 

 By reference to the aggregate capacity of the tanks they will be found 

 capable of fertilizing five hundred acres of land instead of one. 



The stock on this farm, producing the liquid manure, is on the average 

 thirty-six dry and feeding cattle, two hundred and ten sheep, nine working 

 horses, one hack, four or five young horses, and thirty hogs. No houses 

 contribute to the liquid manure, but all the cattle-steddings, piggeries, 

 stables and other farm buildings, and the percolations from the solid manure 

 heaps goes into the liquid manure tanks. One man whose wages are fifty 

 cents per day can empty the mixing tank twice in a day, and in so doing 

 will go over four acres. The quantity, therefore, laid on per day would be 

 say, 8,000 gallons, equal to six cents per 1,000. The working expenses 

 are confined to the wages of this man, and the amount for each application 

 would, therefore, be six cents per acre. The interest on capital invested 

 and total charges per acre would be about $3.25; every extension of the 

 pipes will reduce this amount; the soil on this farm is only twelve inches 

 deep on an average, is underdrained with stones two and a half feet deep, 

 and twelve feet apart. 



Mr. Romilly applied the liquid to twenty-five acres of turnips, mixing it 

 with about two hundred weight of guano to the acre. About twelve loads 

 of farm yard dung per acre had been previously ploughed in and although 

 the soil was bad, the crops were splendid; without the liquid, they 

 would have applied thirty loads of solid manure, without producing an 

 equal crop. The tops of the turnips were excessively small, the roots large, 

 and it was discovered that by applying the liquid immediately after the 

 turnips were sown, the growth of plants was so accelerated as to cilrry 

 them out of the reach of the fly. There is something remarkable in the 

 fact that those who have become accustomed to the results of using liquid 

 manures systematically, should consider as a partial failure the production 

 of eleven feet of grass in a few months, that is to say thirty and a half 

 inches thick for the first crop, the same for the second, and the balance 

 for the third, and the fourth an admirable pasture for stock. 



From what I have said I do not wish farmers to infer that liquid 

 manures can only be beneficially applied in wet weather. As I know very 

 great advantages are produced by applying it in dry weather, particulary 

 when manuring and watering are combined in the same operation. 

 Liquid manure should be collected and raised to the altitude required in as 

 concentrated shape as possible but when distributed and applied to the 

 land, in such a state of dilution with water as the moisture in the land, 

 state of the weather and season of the year may require. A man who 

 keeps seventeen head of cattle, twenty seven horses, ten hogs, and twelve 

 calves, will be compelled to feed them 333,580 lbs. or about 150 tons 

 of forage per annum which will contain 6950 lbs. of azote, and produce on 

 their original weight 20, 900 lbs. of flesh, milk, fat, etc. This food if properly 

 husbanded, after leaving the animal in the shape of excrement, will yield 

 667,160 lbs. of dung. 



This should be chopped up, which permits it to be readily mixed, and 

 placed in a large pile with a man ou top of it with a three tined fork, with 

 which he must turn up the manure, while another applies a powerful jet of 



