Many suburban residents who keep one or more horses, find themselves possessed of at least a greater bulk of manure, than they can well turn under or use in their gardening operations. Straw, which is so largely used for bedding, is slow in decomposing and is bulky and awkward to handle; again, there are more or less weeds in most bedding of this character, so that when feeding our crops we are in many instances, reinforcing their already too numerous enemies. Several acquaintances of mine are using peat moss as bedding and say that by its use they not only made a saving in expense, but find it more convenient in handling. The bulk being much less, it is much easier to plow or spade under. The late Peter Henderson once stated that he was willing to or did pay twice as much for stable manure where pea moss was used for bedding. This moss is only found in large quantities in Germany and Holland ; but it is ground up and packed so closely in bales that it is shipped to this country at a comparatively small figure.

Millions of bales are used annually in Europe, where it is considered especially valuable for its sanitary properties in deodorizing the manure, a point of particular importance in parts of Holland and Germany ; for example, where often the stable joins or forms a part of the dwelling. - W. H. R.