a
morning, they will go into the feeding apartment, and the liquid will be
discharged on the mass of manure, straw, etc.

"Dried muck," said the Deacon, "comes in very handy about a pig-pen, for
absorbing the liquid."

"Yes," said I, "and even dry earth can be used to great advantage, not
merely to absorb the liquid, but to keep the pens sweet and healthy. The
three chief points in saving manure from pigs are: 1, To have the pens
under cover; 2, to keep the feeding apartment or yard covered with a
thick mass of strawy manure and refuse of any kind, and 3, to scatter
plenty of dry earth or dry muck on the floor of the sleeping apartment,
and on top of the manure in the feeding apartment."

"You feed most of your pigs," said the Deacon, "out of doors in the
yard, and they sleep in the pens or basement cellars, and it seems to me
to be a good plan, as they get more fresh air and exercise than if
confined."

"We do not lose much manure," said I, "by feeding in the yards. You let
a dozen pigs sleep in a pen all night, and as soon as they hear you
putting the food in the troughs outside, they come to the door of the
pen, and there discharge the liquid and solid excrements on the mass of
manure left there on purpose to receive and absorb them. I am well aware
that as pigs are often managed, we lose at least half the value of their
manure, but there is no necessity for this. A little care and thought
will save nearly the whole of it."

BUYING MANURE BY MEASURE OR WEIGHT.

The Deacon and I have just been weighing a bushel of different kinds of
manure made on the farm. We made two weighings of each kind, one thrown
in loose, and the other pressed down firm. The following is the result:

Weight of Manure per Bushel, and per Load of 50 Bushels.

Wt/Bu Weight per Bushel in lbs.
Wt/Load Weight per Load of 50 bushels.

---+--------------------------------------------+-------+--------
No.| Kind And Condition Of Manures. | Wt/Bu | Wt/Load
---+--------------------------------------------+-------+--------
| | lbs. | lbs.
1.|Fresh horse-manure free from straw | 37-1/2| 1875
2.| " " " " " " pressed | 55 | 2750
3.|Fresh horse-manure, | |
| as used for bedding pigs | 28 | 1400
4.| " " " | |
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