WHAT MANURE LOSES BY HEATING.
It is not always true that a pile of manure gloaming with heat and smelling strongly is losing ammonia. Ammonia is a very volatile and pungent gas, and might bo known by its peculiar scent, which is freely given off by close, ill'ventilated hone stables, or by the coat of ill-cleaned horses. But it is not often that this peculiar scent escapes from manure heaps ; on the contrary it is a more ■disagreeable odor, similar to that of rotten eggs. This is sulphuretted hydrogen, and not ammonia, and occasions no loss to manure except the sulphur If in making a manure pile some plaster is mixed in the heap, all the ammonia will be caught and held by it, and all the water oontained-rwn the manure will also contain a large quantity (700 times its hulk) of it, and will not give it off at a heat that can be raised in a mannrep A'o. If the manure is left to heat and get t*/ and " fire fang,” or slowly burn to a white dry light stuff, then the ammonia is lost and the manure seriously injured.—“ American Paper.”
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2419, 6 January 1882, Page 4
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194WHAT MANURE LOSES BY HEATING. Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2419, 6 January 1882, Page 4
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