...necessary; but, generally speaking, adherence to the rule is advisable. Sir Humphry Davy recommends covering dead animals with five or six times their bulk of soil mixed with one part of lime. This, when mixed, it may be observed, will still form a very strong manure, and for some plants much...

...they Ire, and a considerable portion of it employed in giving out noxious gases to the atmosphere. " By covering dead animals with five or six times their...an excellent manure ; and by mixing a little fresh quicklime with it, at the time of its removal, the disagreeable effluvia will be in a great measure...

...mode of applying animal substances is thus described in Sir Humphry Davy's Lecture on manures : — " By covering dead animals with five or six times their...an excellent manure, and by mixing a little fresh quicklime with it, at the time of its removal, the disagreeable effluvia would be in a great measure...

...noxious gases which pollute the surrounding air. By covering dead animals with five or six times thoir bulk of soil mixed with one part of lime, and suffering them to remain a few months, their decomposition, as Sir H. Davy remarks, would impregnate the land with soluble matters,...

...they lie, and a considerable portion of it employed in giving out noxious gases to the atmosphere. By covering dead animals with five or six times their...matters, so as to render it an excellent manure ; and by * Extract from a tpeech of Lord Ershtne, delivered at one of Hie nnnw.il Sheef-ihearingt, at Ilvlkham,...