This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...in a soluble state. Canadian Farmers would not think of purchasing guano, even if a supply were at hand. The price of 40 to 00 dollars a ton presents an insuperable objection to its use as a manure for agricultural purposes, especially when a substitute of almost equal value is to be found in the urine of the stables. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...in a soluble state. Canadian Farmers would not think of purchasing guano, even if a supply were at hand. The price of 40 to 00 dollars a ton presents an insuperable objection to its use as a manure for agricultural purposes, especially when a substitute of almost equal value is to be found in the urine of the stables. The urine and droppings of a full grown cow, or horse, contain a quantity of saline and mineral ingredients, exactly equal to the quantity of the same substances contained in the food consumed. In the solid excrements are found those ingredients w hich, as they passed through the body of the animal, resisted the action of the fluids with which they came in contact. This somewhat singular statement will appear perfectly credible when we consider that a full grown horse, or cow, consumes food for years together without increasing in weight; that is to say, the mean or average weight of a milch cow, a working horse, or ox, is the same throughout a period of many years. Certain constituents of the food assume the form of muscle, bone, and blood, supplying the place of an eq3ial amount of worn-out and useless materials, which arc discharged from the body in the urine, (art. 168.) 105. In 1000 lbs. Weight of the urine of the horse, there are found about 45 lbs. of soluble saline and mineral ingredients, and 31 lbs. of a substance called Urea, which, upon decomposition, resolves itself altogether into Carbonic Acid and Ammonia. In 1000 lbs. of the urine of a cow, there arc found about 43 lbs. of saline and mineral ingredients, besides 18 lbs. of urea. A horse voids, on an average, 3 lbs. of urine in a day. From November to March he will void about 450 lbs., containing 14 lbs. of urea and 20 lbs. of soluble solids, as much as is contained in 200 lbs. ...
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