Show aoud deposits of mud at ho bottom oi ponds and sluggish creeks aldays con tain a nitrogen and ordinarily n liello phosphoric acid and potash that is to say they contain usually alio llio three most important constituents of stable manure but nearly always in quantity and always in dormi not so useful to the plant fir food a pound ol 01 nitrogen phosphoric acid or potash in pond or creek mul is worth foi plant food than ft pound of nitrogen etc in manure because tho croal must wait longer before they can make use of the food offered them a proportion of alic so plant nutriments il immediately available in tho stable manure these deposits moreover vary widely iu composition and value anil tho only practicable and satisfactory way to find out whether use will bo profitable is to miko tho material in each CASO do what it can in the held and judge it by tho results nitch fair trial no special is needed more to let it dry as much as a pile by tho sido of the creek for doca not pay to cart water over alic farm except in a very dry time it is so weak i fertilizer aliat it cau make lit alo odds when it is put on tho soil or on aliat crop it docs not undergo bucl rotting anyway is little in it to rot but by slacking about ten bushels of quicklime with salt brine andin and in timit cly mixing tins product with about ono hundred of the fresh moist muck its quality has in many casca been much more standing three or four summer month than if left to dry without any huoh addition tho host use however to which these deposits can bo put it to compost them with the stable manure in alio yard or with animal offal of any kind alio llio material while to prevent loss of valuable plant food from the moro valuable rotting manure may itself bo considerably sider ably improved in quality in conic of iti intimate aith this operation profi anor 0 V caldwell in y Y tribune |