GOOD MANURES.
It is not alway true that a pile of manure steaming with heat and smelling strongly is losing ammonia. Ammonia is a very volatile and pungent gas, and might be known by its peculiar scent, which is freely given off! by close, illventilated horse 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. Tnis 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 contained ih‘the manure will also contain a large quantity (700 Times its bulk) of it, and will not give it off: at a heat that can be raised in a manure pile. If the manure
is left,to heat and get dry and “fire fang,” or slowly burn to a white, dry, light stuff, then the ammonia isdost and the manure seriously injured.
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Patea Mail, 15 March 1882, Page 3
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186GOOD MANURES. Patea Mail, 15 March 1882, Page 3
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