558 MANURES. 



amalgamated into one homogeneous mass with the loam, so that it 

 can be easily handled and distributed 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. — 

 Provide a good supply of black swamp mould 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 mould. 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 mould. 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. 



Twenty Dollars' Worth of Manure for almost nothing. — If 

 you have any dead anmial, 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 cf the way place, but remove it a short dis- 

 tance 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 mould sufficient to 

 make, with what had been previously added, twenty good wagon loads, 

 and you will have within twelve months a pile of manure worth $20 for 

 any crop you choose to put it upon. Use a proportionate quantity of 

 mould for smaller animals, but never less than twenty good wagon 

 loads for a horse ; and, if any dogs manifest too great a regard for the 

 enclosed carcass, shoot them on the spot. 



Ashes from Soil by Spontaneous Combustion. — Make your mound 

 twenty-one feet long by ten and' one-half feet wide. To fire use 

 seventy-two bushels of lime. First a layer of dry sods or parings on 

 which a quantity of lime is spread, mixing sods with it, then a cover- 

 ing of eight inches of sods, on which the other half of the lime is 

 spread, and covered a foot thick, the height of the mound being about 

 a yard. In twenty-four hours it will take fire. The lime should be 

 fresh from the kiln. It is better to suffer it to ignite itself than to 

 effect it by the operation of water. When the fire is fairly kindled, 

 fresh sods must be applied, but get a good body of ashes in the first 



