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Excerpt from The Agricultural Value of the Sewage of London, Examined in Reference to the Principal Schemes Submitted to the Metropolitan Board of Works: With Extracts From the Evidence of Chemists, Engineers, and Agriculturists The manure which contains all the elements of ferti lity is the farmyard manure, made under cover by horned stock well fed on chaff, roots, corn, oil-cake, linseed, pulse of some kind, and in due season mixed with the manure of the corn and bean-fed horses and well-fatted pigs. No artificial compound has yet been made which, for ordinary purposes, can economically equal farmyard manure made as above described.* But it has one dis advantage, its bulk being from ten to twenty times as heavy as the guano containing the same amount of am monia, - that is to say, of corn-producing fertility. It is a noteworthy fact, that the farmers who manu facture the richest manure, who spend the largest sum per acre in purchasing cake, Egyptian beans, etc. For their cattle, are also those who are the largest customers for portable manures composed of guano and superphos phate. Farmyard and portable manures have each their uses, -one does not supersede the other. The time has not yet arrived, predicted by Baron Liebig, when the fertilizers of a thousand acres can'be carried in the pocket of a shooting-jacket. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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