ON SAVING LIQUID MANURE. 
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well. The bunches, when attended to as stated below, have invariably 
been equal in size, and perfect. 
When the trees are in flower, take a bunch of any of the black sort 
and dash it against the Lisbon, so as to impregnate it. The conse¬ 
quence is, that this grape will, by my plan, set, and be as perfect in its 
bunches as any other sort. 
August IU/j, 1835. 
[We quite agree with Mr. Bristol, that his treatment of the Lisbon 
grape is feasible, and deserves to be followed, not only with the Lisbon, 
but with several other sorts that are often deficient in the size of berries. 
—Ed.] 
On saving Liquid Manure, by G. T. Dale, Wirksworth, Derby¬ 
shire.—No branch of economy has been more neglected than this, 
though the attention of farmers and horticulturists has frequently been 
called to it. I remember some years ago, when I was a boy, being for 
some months at a farm-house, where there was a spacious farm-yard. 
The whole of the valuable liquid from this yard was suffered to run 
away, and was lost in the ditches. After some time, a part of the wall 
surrounding the yard, being undermined by the drainings running under 
it, fell down. I then asked the farmer if it would not be a good thing 
to have a mew or cistern to collect it, instead of allowing it to run 
across the road as it had done for years. The answer I got was, “ It 
did not much signify;” and the wall was repaired. Our English 
agriculturists are, in this respect, certainly not quite so sharp as their 
neighbours on the continent, where all drainings from their dung-hills, 
stables, cow-houses, &c., are collected into a reservoir. Our farmers can 
certainly be little aware of the expense and trouble they might save 
themselves by attending to this. Many, I have no doubt, will say, 
“ But look at the expense to begin with.” I will engage to prove that 
the expense of constructing the reservoir shall, in a very small farm, be 
paid three times over the first year. It is really lamentable to say, but 
nevertheless true, the system generally pursued is quite the reverse of 
what it should be. 
At what expense do many agriculturists procure their manure, when 
all this expense, labour and trouble might be saved by a little manage¬ 
ment. Mr. Stafford, who has written much on this subject, is of 
opinion that four barrowsful of new manure, properly fermented and 
reduced to a liquid state, are sufficient to manure half an acre of land. 
The drainings from stables, &c., when properly fermented, is by far the 
most powerful manure we have,, either for farming or garden purposes. 
