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VALUE OF POULTRY MANURE—HOW TO SAVE IT. 
on the ground, and one and three quarter sto¬ 
ries high—the chambers running two or three 
feet into the roof, as choice or convenience 
may direct. The roof has a pitch of 30 to 40 
degrees from a horizontal line, and broadly 
spread over the walls, say two and a half feet, 
showing the ends of the rafters, bracket fash¬ 
ion. The chimneys pass out through the peak 
of the roof, upon the hips of what would other¬ 
wise be the gables, connect with the long sides 
of the roof, covering the front and rear. On 
the long front is partly seen, in the perspective, 
a portico 16 by 10 feet—not the chief entrance 
front, but rather a side front, practically, which 
leads into a lawn or garden, as may be most 
desirable, and from which the best view from 
the house is commanded. Over this porch is a 
small gable running into the roof to break its 
monotony, in which is a door-window leading 
from the upper hall on to the deck of the por¬ 
tico. This gable has the same finish as the 
main roof, by brackets. The chamber windows 
are two thirds or three quarters the size of the 
lower ones; thus showing the upper story not 
full height, below the plates, but running two 
to four feet into the garret. The rear wing con¬ 
taining the entrance, or business front, is 24 by 
32 feet, one and a half stories high, with a pitch 
of roof not less than 35 degrees, and spread over 
the walls, both at the eaves and gable, in the 
same proportion as the roof to the main body. 
In front of this is a porch or veranda, eight feet 
wide, with a low hipped roof. In the front and 
rear roofs of this wing is a dormer window to 
light the chambers. The gable to this wing is 
bold, and gives it character by the breadth of 
its roof over the walls, and the strong brackets 
by which it is supported. The chimney is 
thrown up strong and boldly at the point of the 
roof, indicating the every-day uses of the fire 
places below, which, although distinct and wide 
apart in their location on the ground floors, are 
drawn together in the chambers, thus showing 
only one escape through the roof. 
The wood house in the rear of the wing has 
a roof of the same character, and connects with 
the long building in the rear, which has the 
same description of roof, but hipped at the end. 
That end over the workshop, and next the wood 
house, shows a bold gable like the wing of the 
house, and affords room and light to the lumber 
room over the shop, and also gives variety and 
relief to the otherwise too great sameness of 
roof appearance on the farther side of the es¬ 
tablishment. 
VALUE OF POULTRY MANURE. 
It is lamentable, and disgusting even, to see 
what a waste is going on in this country of one 
of the richest and most valuable manures known. 
We are importing shipload after shipload of 
guano, (sea bird manure,) while hundreds of 
tons of poultry manure, which, it is asserted, is 
equal in value—is suffered to go to waste, in the 
United States. Each farmer’s poultry yard pro¬ 
duces so little that it is generally thought a mat¬ 
ter of no importance, so it is suffered to go ti> 
waste, and thus the country loses over a million 
dollars annually! You do not believe it—we 
knew you would not. Yet, let us calculate—an 
American can always do this—and see whether 
we have any foundation for such an assertion. 
There are 21,000,000 people in the United States. 
Would it be too much to suppose that one in 
thirty of this number kept poultry, which pro¬ 
duced a bushel of manure per annum? This 
would make 700,000 bushels, weighing 60 lbs. 
per bushel, equivalent to 21,000 tons. The com¬ 
mercial value of this we will suppose equal tt> 
the best Peruvian guano, which is worth $50 
per ton, of 2,000 lbs. This would make one mil¬ 
lion and fifty thousand dollars. Thus our assertion 
is more than prove?. 
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HOW TO SAVE POULTRY MANURE. 
Having learned the value of poultry manure, 
we suppose now, our readers would like to know 
what is the best method to save it. 
First, build you a poultry-house, if it be no 
more than a rough scaffolding of poles or slabs, 
laid upon crotches, forming a double pitch roof, 
with end boards in winter, to keep out the wind 
and driving storms. Under this place parallel 
roosts; the manure during the night, then, will 
all drop down in a narrow row beneath. Here 
place light loam about a foot deep, rather wider 
and longer than the roost, and give it a sprink¬ 
ling of plaster of Paris an inch thick. When 
this is covered an inch deep with manure, give 
it a layer of loam four inches deep, and another 
sprinkling of an inch of plaster, and so continue. 
In the spring, mix all well together, keep it free 
from the rain, and use it at the rate of one pint 
to a hill of corn, or in a corresponding quantity 
for cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins, melons 
peas, onions, strawberries, or any other fruit, 
vegetable, or grain, requiring rich warm manure* 
and our word for it, you will have a large crop 
of a superior quality. Thus you will become 
one out of the many who is desirous to benefit 
himself, and assist in saving more than a million 
of dollars annually to the country. 
