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  • What I can't help myself doing: pointing out the vagueness and horse-manure language in politics, the rhetorical techniques of advertising, correcting grammar in the newspaper, linking everything to something larger.

    It's Your Thang - Do What You Wanna Do kittenpie 2008

  • I think the time limits are a load of horse-manure, but the internet cafés should keep track of their custommers and notice that people are playing for extended periods of time.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - ‘My life as an online gamer’ 2005

  • While richer in fertilising substances than horse-manure, it is not so rapid in its fermentation.

    Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

  • They are in the form of a fine powder; and in order to increase their rate of action, which is very slow, they are often composted in America with horse-manure before use.

    Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

  • As illustrating this fact, it may be mentioned that Boussingault has found by experiment that the total percentage of nitrogen contained by fresh horse-manure might be reduced in the process of fermentation to one-half of its original amount by loss from this source.

    Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

  • The composition of the manure formed from the excrementitious matter of the cow is very much less constant than is the case in the horse-manure.

    Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

  • A word or two may be of value regarding the treatment in the stable of horse-manure.

    Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

  • The composition of horse-manure is perhaps the most uniform of all the manures produced by the different farm animals.

    Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

  • The following analyses of horse-manure may be valuable for reference.

    Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

  • Notwithstanding this fact, much of what has been said on the use of preservatives for horse-manure may be also applied to the cow-dung.

    Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

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