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another acre without any application. He cultivated them 

 all well and alike. 



The manured acre made 22 bushels of wheat, the ashed 

 acre, made 16 bushels, and the unmanured acre made 16 

 bushels. This proves that the more nitrogen manure con- 

 tains in combination with the salts, the more value it has. 



Night soil, or the excrement of human beings, is, next to 

 chicken manure, the richest and most stimulating of all 

 manures. Then comes that of fattening hogs and she^p, 

 horses and cows. But, as before stated, the disposition to 

 waste is so great, that the " cold " manures, as that of cows, 

 sheep, and hogs, are more available to the farmer than the 

 more active ones of man and horse. 



Two much care cannot be exercised in preserving the ex- 

 crements of men and animals. Every pound of ammonia 

 that is lost or evaporates represents the amount required for 

 a bushel of corn ; and every pound of the urine of a horse 

 or man will furnish sufficient ammonia for a pound of 

 wheat; and two and a half pounds of the urine of man will 

 furnish the phosphoric acid and more than half of the 

 potash required for a pound of wheat. 



It then remains for us to mstke the application of these 

 remarks, and every right-thinking man will see at once the 

 importance of gathering up and saving. It is money in his 

 pocket. One man will burn a f^w bushels of soil, and set- 

 ting it near the privy, will throw, every day, a few hands- 

 ful on the pile of excrement, and in a few months he will 

 fill his barrels with the most valuable poudrette, that an- 

 other man will go to the city and pay a large price for. 

 One man will set a few barrels of ashes in a convenient 

 place, and cause the house-cleaner to empty the urine of the 

 night into them. In a lew months he will have his ashes 

 thoroughly saturated with salts and organic matter the most 

 valuable. 



In England, farmers do not consider it any hardship to 

 dig cisterns, in which to save all the liquid excrements of 



