Saving Liquid Manure

A!t a meeting of the Franklin Farnier's Club, it was stated that the solid matter in the urine of a cow for ono year would weigh nine hundred pounds, and was rioher in eleinonts yieldiwg amnionia and cqual in phosphatos to guano, pouud for pound. In order to save this, farmers were under the necessity of ising some material to absorb the liquid. WEat the material should bo was an important question ; and all must be governed moro or less by sxirrounding eireumstances. If sand is used, and froe from water, every cord will weigh seven tons ; half sand half clay, free from water, will weigh six tons ; pure clay, four and three-fourths tons ; garden mould, rich in vegetable matter, four tons; peat or inuck, two tons. It should be borne in mind that these weights are after the material has been heated so as to drive off the water, and is free from moisture, when one cord of eac-h will hold or take up if fully satnrated with water ; pure sand, one and one-half tons ; peat or muck, three tons. Xhese statements are from a sotfreo beliijved to bt: reliable, and should bc: well sttidied liy tvwy farmer who would use them for preserving manure. It is the opinión of the Club that for crdkiary cultivatcd soils, sand of itself, without considcring it weight or power to absorb and rctaiu liquid and gases, is the poorest material for oomposts. Poat is the best ; at it is composud almost wholly of matter that can be appropriated by the growing erop, and reiains liquids and gases with good results. -