BONE MANURE.
_ An American writes as follows en dissolving bones:—•' I have a large watertight hogshead standing out of doors near the kitchen. In the spring I cover the bottom about six inches deep with dry soil. On this I put a layer of bones about the same depth, and cover them entirely with unbleached ashes. ; On this' I place another layer of bones, then ashes, and so on until the hogshead is full. I leave it then exposed to the rains all the summer and winter until the next spring. Then, on removing the contents of the hogshead, I find nearly all the bones so 'soft that they will crumble to powder under a very slight pressure, and, mixed with the ashes and the soil, they give me a small pile of most valuable manure ready for immediate use. Any of the bones not sufficiently subdued I return to the hogshead again for another twelvemonth's slumber. In this way I have had no difficulty in transforming all the bones I can get into bone meal, I buy them directly from the butsher for the purpose of turning them thus into manure, and consider them the cheapest fertilizer I can obtain."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2349, 17 July 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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201BONE MANURE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2349, 17 July 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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