Applying Manures

By a series of experiments made some years ago, in England, it was showa that biirnyard mauure benefited crops the most the first season, when covernd about two inches deep with soil. This result appears reasonable, but the question is, how can farmers place their manures in the grouud at tkis depth 't It is not practicable in auy case, but they can approximate to it in somu cases, When nianure is plowed under in the ordinary way, some of it is covered too deep to benefit the erop the same season, and it is made available if the land be plowed the second year. Some farmers plow their land, then spreiid on the manure and harrow it in, but much of it is left upou the surface, and is partially lost, as the ammonia that goes off in the atmosphere is the virtue of the manure ltself. It is strange that we should find intelligent farmers, at this late day in gricultural progress, who deny that arnyard manure can be injured by exosure to the air aud sun ; yet they do ixist ! A few years ago a farmer in Central New York wrote several artiles for publicatiou, in which he ateznpted to prove that when manure ies upon the surfacs of the land and ries up, its fertility is still in it, conentrated in the small crusts that lemain ! Farmers, let uie caution you against the folly of carting your manurea upon a field and spreading t hem for a week or longer before yon plow them under. If this be ilone in the spring, with a warm sun and high, drying wiuds, a large portion of them, or, rathor, of thoir fertility, will paan ofV in the atmosphere. Don't be deceived in this matter whon your olfactury nerves bear a pungen evidence of what I gay. You canno afford to work your farms on this wast ing principie. Manure is money, am if one xhould see you ticattering " green backs " over the field, on somo wind; day, the ovidence of your insanit; would be but a little more tangibl than when you spread your manure and leave thum to evapórate in tho sun and by the winds. - " M.," in New Tor, Observar.