Show I 1 on manure furnishing food for plants 1 1 we have said saidah that a t plants contain four or g ganic anic and ten in inorganic organic constituents and that tha t the law of nature demand that from the soil and atmosphere each one of these should be available in oner to secure perfect or crops aps ops and a f full all supply of each ta to ae se aei i cure a abundant b crops perfect ears of corn com can be raised on a soil lightly ma 1 haired from hills four feet apart and one on ia x in a hill bill one ear to ji a stalk even if the ground is plowed only six inches deep provided the soil is not too wet or too dy dry but quite a different culture and is is required to grow twice the number of hills three stalks to ahill a hill and twin ears on most of them the same will apply to raising wheat I 1 waiving remarks on the laws requiring ring a deeply and finely pulverized soil for another article arl icle we will in this consider manures as furnishing food for plants from repeated experiments it has fias been ascertained that the stale of animals contains a great amount of nutriment or food for plants that similar effects are produced by apply ingabe ing the droppings of poultry guanzani mal manure f blood blod and offal of slaughter yards ac aa much of the value of these liable is liable to be lost by putrefaction Dutre faction and evaporation po ration by chimi chemistry chi siry we ascertain what this is ind and the way to retain it it is well known tha tha in clo cleaning guing hor horse se stables esi pee specially fally ally under the floor there is a very pungent smell the sama is is true in opening a heap of stabler stable manure that has been thrown up and heated this smell is produced by the escape of ammonia which is the essence and v value alue of manure the loss is greater from privies because the contents are still richer richer and mote highly charged with fertilizing gases how to retain these and to fix them in a state in which they will remain till used by the growing plants is a question of great importance I 1 which a scientific poow ledge of these thase cleme ants alone alane can answer I 1 I 1 an en english glish writer t says before you be begin gin i to clean out your stable dissolve some common salt in w t er if a faur horse stable say four poun pounds ds of salt dissolved in two buckets of waterland wat erand tired the nose of a over the stable floor an hour or so before vou beo begin ih to move the manure and the volatile salts of ammonia will become fixed ss salts from their having united unite 1 with the acid of the common salt band nd the soda thus liberated from the salt will quickly absorb carbonic acid forming carbonate of soda this powerful solvent will be a valuable agent in pie preparing paring the I 1 manure for the reception of plants after it is applied to the soil night soil is ii rendered enod inodorous or b by mixing ing it with charcoal dust carbon carbo 01 p pulverized biver 1 clay and plaster of Par ivand t ten e n times I 1 it its 8 NV weight eight of peat MUCK or turf m may be added or any other carbonaceous matter with good effect in heaping heading up manure a portion of this mixed with it will in a great measure prevent the escape of ammonia by their chemical action as above described I 1 have long practised practiced sprinkling pulverized cliar charcoal coal or plaster blaster daily in our stables and also in heaping up my manure with a free use of salt the result has been most satisfactory this gives it double value when kept under shelter when mixed with alternate layers of meadow mud trebie the quantity maybe obtained the plough the loom a and nd anvil |