cover and sprinkling it thoroughly
at intervals with plaster and other substances. Tanks are also becoming
more common than formerly, for the preservation of liquid manure, which
is usually applied by means of large, perforated hogs-heads, after the
manner of street-watering.

You ask, how the manure is managed at Bow Park, Brantford. That made
during fall and winter is carefully kept in as small bulk as possible,
to prevent exposure to the weather. In February and March it is drawn
out and put in heaps 8 feet square, and well packed, to prevent the
escape of ammonia. In spring, as soon as practicable, it is spread, and
plowed under immediately. Manure made in spring and summer is spread on
the field at once, and plowed under with a good, deep furrow.

Very truly yours, J. M. B. ANDERSON, Ed. _Canada Farmer_.

MANURE STATISTICS OF LONG ISLAND.

The Manure Trade of Long Island--Letter from J. H. Rushmore.

OLD WESTBURY, Long Island, April 6, 1876.

_Joseph Harris, Esq._:

DEAR SIR--The great number of dealers in manure in New York precludes
accuracy, yet Mr. Skidmore (who has been testifying voluminously before
the New York Board of Health in relation to manure and street dirt),
assures me that the accompanying figures are nearly correct. I enclose
statement, from two roads, taken from their books, and the amount
shipped over the other road I obtained verbally from the General Freight
Agent, and embody it in the sheet of statistics.

The Ash report I _know_ is correct, as I had access to the books showing
the business, for over ten years. I have made numerous applications,
verbally, and by letter, to our largest market gardeners, but there
seems to exist a general and strong disinclination to communicate
anything worth knowing. I enclose the best of the replies received.
Speaking for some of our largest gardeners, I may say that they
cultivate over one hundred acres, and use land sufficiently near to the
city to enable them to dispense with railroad transportation in bringing
manure to their places and marketing crops. I have noticed that one of
the shrewdest gardeners invariably composts horn-shavings and bone-meal
with horse-manure several months before expecting to use it. A safe
average of manure used per acre by gardeners, may be stated at ninety
(90) tubs, and from two hundred to twenty hundred pounds of fertilizer
in addition, according to its strength, and the kind of crop.

The following railro