MANURE.
When stuff intended for manure is left in a heap and gets dry the process of decomposition's stopped. To hasten decomposition it should bo wetted, and the very best thing to wet it with is tho drainage from the stables, stockyard, or pigstye. But water from the brook or well will be better than nothing. The manure heap ought by no means to be anywhere near the well used for domestic purposes, or for watering stock, for water used from such a well will be certain in time to kill some of these who partake of it or of the live stock which drink it. Vegetable matter uudeoampofed is unfit to feed plants with, but when well rotted is about the best food that can be put upon the ground. Earth mixed with decomposing manure will catch md hold the ammonia, Ac., making the manure ioubly valuable,
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1983, 2 July 1880, Page 2
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148MANURE. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1983, 2 July 1880, Page 2
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