On Burning Clay for Manure. 
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they have thoroughly imbibed the moisture, and remain fully 
charged with valuable matter. It is then packed away in another 
close shed, or store, and then trodden down by men, as hard and 
close as you may fancy guano to lie in its rocky bed ; and so it 
remains, piled up to the upper tie-beams of the shed, and covered 
over with boards and hurdles, until dug out with a pick-axe for 
use. We thus have always a large store of manure, ready to drill 
for turnips, swedes, and roots of any kind, and a most excellent 
top-dressing for grasses and meadows ; and in the kitchen-garden 
and flower-gardens it has been found a perfect substitute for 
farm-yard manure, and less productive of weeds. In its process 
it heats a good deal, and sends out crusts of saltpetre. 
A rough larch shed roofed with beech boavdhig protects each slied and the worlitnen 
from wet. 
Ground plan of arches and bars bottom of the ashes. 
X — 3 inches clear. 
O — 0 inches solid brick. 
4 ft. 2 in. wide at bottom, and 6 ft. 3 in, wide at the top. 
The kilns are built in a dell, so that there is a road on the level of the top of the kilns 
to load and unload them. 
No. 1. 
Front view as seen. 
No. 2. 
Section, if front were removed. Road above to unload . 
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6 feet. 
Road below to heat the furnace and carry 
away wood-ashes. 
Should any stronger stimulant be required for drilling for 
swedes, &c., an addition of superphosphate, or guano, soot, pre- 
