Domestic Guano

JHi(l)iip Jlrps. It is nn old story, we kno-.v, but ono w&ioh wiil bear repeaüog, that farmera Fhould take all possiblo paina to make ths very best use of their home manures, beforo buying any foreign , aera. Tako the singlo item of hen dung. It is one of the most poweriul fortilizera in tho world, for. the reason, chiffly, that it containa the liquicl and solid osero ments together. rrof. Norton says: - " It is f'ouiid tü btí partieularly rieh in uitrogen, and a!so iu phosphates. The nianuio of pigoonn, hens, dueks, geoso, aud turkeys, ia very valuable, aud sliould be carefuily collectcd. The amount to be obtained from these sources may bo tliought so insiguitiua'.it as to be uuworthy cf notice ; but it must be re i membercd that three or four hundred pouuds of such manurc, that bas not been exposed to raiu or sun, iá worth at least 14 to IS loads of ordinary manure. Of eourse, tiiis dung should uot be applied to plants iu its crudc, conccutrated forra- it would kill seeds or rootH at ouce. The true way is to place the ! roosts whcre tho dropping can be gathercd up. Tlicn spiiukle the floor with eharcoal-dust or gypsum. Wherc these are Dot convenii'iit to be had, prepare a heap of dried muck, well pulverized, aud spread it under the perches twiee a week. Shovel and svreep up the whole misture once a fovtnight, at)d put the same iu barrels. Pursue this plau till near planting time. Then empty your barrels on the bain floor, and mix tho heap with inore piaster, ashes, or muck, so that the hen dung will tinally be about half of the mixture. Dampun the compost with a little water, cover the heap with old mats, and let it He uutil wanted in the field. Apply it to corn at the rate of a gilí to a hill; but be careful to cover it with a little earth before dropping the sced. Use it also at the same rate for potatoes, mixing it a little with the soil at planting. It may also be drilled iu with wheat, uaing it however, in aluiost as moderato quantities as guano. If barn-yard manure is also used broadcast, tn bushels of this fertilizer will be abuudant for an acre. It would richly pay any farmer or gardener to buy hendroppings at half a dollar a buahel. Certainly it is unwise to give them away, as gome do to tho tanners. So with other home-made fertilizers. Some sort of absorbent should be kept oonstantly ou hand, and uigh at hand, eonvenient for uso at all seasons of the year. Dried peat or muck, coal-ashes, saw-dust, chip-manure, tan-bark - all will anssver a good purpose. Throw a little, once a week. into the privyvau'.t. It will keep down all unpleasant odor?, Bave the waste of urine, and make the bulk of material doublo in quautity and value. When the timo comes for the annual cleaning out, Patrick will not make a trrj face ut all at all. Mix the conteuts with as much more of comraon B3Í1, and in the course of a few months, we shall bave a large pile of excellent, safe, and not offensivo manure. Few persons are aware how much can be accomplished in a singlo year by saving and using the slops of kitchen and ohamber. We know of more than one man, who, on liiring a vilage house and garden, with the soil nearíy worn out, bas made it quite productive, chiefly by this simple means. One of these purBued the following course : Not being able to buy much manure, he placed a tight barrel near the kitchen door, whero it could receive daily offerings from up stairs and down stair.-, aud weekly gifts from the washtub. Every night in summer, on returning from his shop, Mr K. took pail and watering pot, and scattered tho rich slops between his rows of cabbages beets, potatoes, beans, eto. The rains full often enough to dilute his liquids. In the fall it appeared that his worn out ground yielded better than that of his forchanded neighbors. Our advice would be to dig a pit gomewhere in the rear of tho dwclling, wall it up with alabs, plank or brick, and conduct all the slops of the house into it through a drain. Into this reservoir, cast froin week to week, all manner of absorbents. When the pit is filled, it will be worth a good deal of money. But let each man taka his own way of economizing. Only let some plan be pursued of saving all the refuse perishable matter about a place, and converting it into manurc This is the way to fertilizo land,