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neous mass with the loam, so that it can be easily handled and dis- 

 tributed whenever required. You may rely on it, this manure will 

 leave its mark, and show good results wherever it is used. 



How to Double the usual Quantity of Manure on a Farm. — Pro- 

 vide a good supply of black swamp mold or loam from the woods 

 within easy reach of your stable, and place a layer of this, one foot 

 thick, under each horse, with litter, as usual, on the top of the loam 

 or mold. Remove the droppings of the animal every day, but let 

 the loam remain for two weeks ; then remove it, mixing it with other 

 manure, and replace with fresh mold. By this simple means any 

 farmer can double, not only the quantity, but also the quality of 

 his manure, and never feel himself one penny the poorer by the 

 trouble or expense incurred, while the fertilizing value of the 

 ingredients absorbed and saved by the loam can scarcely be 

 estimated. 



Josiah Quincy, Jr., has been very successful in keeping cattle 

 in stables the year through, and feeding them, by means of soiling. 

 The amount of manure thus made had enabled him to improve the 

 fertility of a poor farm of 100 acres, so that in twenty years the hay 

 Crop has increased from 20 tons to 300 tons. The cattle are 

 kept in well-arranged stables, and are led out into the yard an hour 

 or two morning and afternoon ; but they generally appear glad to 

 return to their quarters. By this process, one acre enables him to 

 support three or four cows. They are fed on grass, green oats, 

 corn fodder, barley, etc., which are sown at intervals through the 

 spring and summer months, to be cut as required ; but he remarks 

 that his most valuable crop is his manure crop. Each cow produces 

 three and a half cords of solid, and three cords of liquid,' manure, or 

 six and a half cords in all. He uses twice as much muck to mix 

 with it, making twenty cords in all. Five to eight miles from Bos- 

 ton, such manure is worth from five to eight dollars a cord. From 

 this estimate, he has come to the conclusion that a cow's manure 

 may be made as valuable as her milk. ' 



Twenty Dollars' Worth of Manure for almost Nothing. — If you 

 have any dead animal, say, for instance, the body of a horse, do not 

 suffer it to pollute the atmosphere by drawing it away to the woods 

 or any other out-of-the-way place, but remove it a short distance 

 only from your premises, and put down four or five loads of muck 

 or sods, place the carcass thereon, sprinkle it over with quick-lime, 

 and cover over immediately with sods or mold sufficient to make, 



