Liquid-Manure is the most advantageous form in which fertilizers can be applied by the gardener to his crops. It is the most economical, most prompt, and most efficient mode. The manure is presented to the roots in one of the only forms in which the roots can imbibe food, and the manure is spread regularly through the texture of the soil. If, instead of digging in stable-manure, each crop was watered occasionally with liquid-manure, the produce would be finer and more abundant.

My brother, Mr. Cuthbert Johnson, says, in his excellent work on "Fertilizers:" -

"I have often employed with decided effect, in my own garden, for vines, peach, and standard apple-trees, liquid-manure, prepared either by mixing one part by weight of cow-dung with four parts of water, or the collected drainage of the stable and cow-house. It has been found advantageous to plants cultivated in stoves to apply even a liquid-manure, composed of six quarts of soot to a hogshead of water; and although this is a very unchemical mixture, yet it has been found by Mr. Robertson to be peculiarly grateful and nourishing to pines, causing them to assume an unusually deep healthy green; and, for stoved mulberry, vine, peach, and other plants, the late Mr. Knight, of Downton, employed a liquid-manure, composed of one part of the dung of domestic poultry and four to ten parts of water, with the most excellent result." - Johnson on Fertilizers.

Guano Liquid Manure

Ten gallons of water will readily dissolve, or keep suspended in a state of minute division, about 50 lbs. weight of guano. When applied to plants, not more than five ounces should be added to that quantity of water. If it be made stronger, it injures or kills the plants to which it is applied.

Sheep's-dung, if emploved for making liquid manure, should be a peck to thirty gallons.

When cow-dung is used, boiling water should be first poured upon it, as it is apt to be full of destructive larvae.

Sulphate of Ammonia, and any other salt of ammonia, must not be used more than a quarter of an ounce to each gallon.